Re: mail-followup-to / mail-copies-to

Bruce Lilly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Bruce Lilly
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri May 27 2005 21:49, Paul Jakma wrote:

> It absolutely is not fine to set Reply-To == list mailbox because of 
> the *definite* risk of MUAs sending 'private' mails to the Reply-To. 

You are confused. Reply-To has semantics of "suggestion for responses",
not "private".

> If Reply-To is supposed to the answer, then at a minimum there should 
> be a sanctioned clarification of how implementations should deal with 
> it.

RFCs 724, 733, and 822 had some confusing statements.  RFC 2822 is much
more clear, and was approved with community review and consensus more
than four years ago.  So this has already happened.
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