On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Keith Moore wrote:
Rather, the whole assumption that the author of a message should be
able to change the behavior of a recipient's user agent is very
much in doubt.
Amen (I have come to realise).
The only way to make Reply work better is to improve the user
interfaces of mail user agents so that recipients of messages are
more easily able to explicitly choose where their replies go. To
the next new fields can help this process, they can only do so by
providing more information to a recipient to inform that choice.
How about looking at this as two seperate problems:
1. Unhelpful behaviour of many MUAs in presence of Reply-To
2. Desires by sending users for finer-grained means to specify
preferences for replies
Would it be an idea to start by solving 1 first? Eg via a BCP or some
other document?
That would help clear-up the scope of 2 also. (Eg, currently the
desire for 2 is often because of 1 - that's why I initially
approached this list).
Keith
regards,
--
Paul Jakma paul(_at_)clubi(_dot_)ie paul(_at_)jakma(_dot_)org
Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.