Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA20872; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:42 -0400 X-Resent-To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:41 EDT Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA20865; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:39 -0400 Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (barr@augusta.math.psu.edu [146.186.132.2]) by leibniz.math.psu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA10807 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:31 -0400 Received: from localhost (barr@localhost) by augusta.math.psu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA23469 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:30 -0400 Message-Id: <199507281411.KAA23469@augusta.math.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU Subject: Re: Format of In-Reply-To and References In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:39:07 +0200." References: X-Face: $+9-wYg.[->94HJ{go[7Q]E!K&hUg7ZhLyCMyq_FU*ca0GazE>^/2BKLcK0bP-'%;Nn?M+am,jlSP>1K$iz@ %'v'FEW{@](U&Ed/}>ju3Ctlr!XwJ27Q)7h2a%"`sz;j:/3EC[mXi@*X@HE1]'ddq$ZX"ePsMyTkeg >zdML.SVvX1W`adGIUD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 10:11:29 -0400 From: Dave Barr In message , Jacob Palme writes : >That is the same kind of extension I suggest for "Followup-To", >extend it from referring to only a newsgroup, to allow also the >name of a mailing list if that is where further discussion is >to be held. Well, that can be done already in news with "Followup-To: poster" and "Reply-To: listname@site". Extending Followup-To would have the option of being able to 'personal reply' without extra work on the part of the user, but I'm not sure if that's better than the incompatibilities that would result. --Dave