regarding the reply address on the list....

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Feb 3 16:15:46 2000

On Feb 3, 18:00, Hans Franke wrote:

> So here's my ME-TOO-NOT-LIKE-THE-NEW mail:

> Last but not least, it's the RFC 822 way - and standards are the
> only real chance to go along.

Except that mailing lists are not what RFC 822 defined "Reply-to:" for.
 Its primary purpose is quite different; it's to force a reply to a valid
address when the sender's "From:" is not valid.

Quote: "The "Reply-To" field is added by the originator"

The RFC 822 method would be to set the "From:" field to
"classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org" , and set the "Sender:" field to the name of
the person who originated the message (which is exactly the opposite to
what majordomo is doing, I notice, but that's perfectly legitimate).

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 16:15:46 GMT

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