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John dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Tue Apr 11 01:09:04 BST 2006


Derek Broughton wrote:
> John wrote:
> 
> 
>>OTOH the list can be fixed easily, tomorrow, and it will work properly
>>for everyone.
> 
> 
> But you're wrong, there.  It _won't_ work properly for all of us who have
> mail programs that properly understand list headers because, while my
> program (KMail) recognizes the various posting headers and will use them in
> a consistent and intelligent manner, it is explicitly forbidden by RFC to
> use them if there's a Reply-To header.


And if the typly-to: header is set to the correct location, where's the 
problem?

At the moment, we have lots of people getting mail they shouldn't. Is 
that worse than what you think could happen?




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