Received: from localhost by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA15922; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:17:53 -0400 X-Resent-To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU ; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:17:48 EDT Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU Received: from mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id KAA15910; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:17:46 -0400 Received: from mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (localhost.Berkeley.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA07478; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:18:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199508151418.HAA07478@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: Robert Elz From: Eric Allman cc: ietf-drums Subject: Re: "Reply-To" In-reply-to: Mail from Robert Elz dated Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:38:28 +1000 <10390.808461508@munnari.OZ.AU> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:18:44 -0700 Sender: eric@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU I have to agree with Robert's logic here -- I had forgotten that From: is settable (and can even be multi-valued). I certainly have seen Reply-To: commonly used to indicate "please send replies to me only and not to the distribution list" -- that is, Reply-To: and From: are identical. In fact, this is probably the single most useful purpose for the header. eric