Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Message-Id: <199508151500.LAA20031@panix4.panix.com>
To: Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>, ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Reply-To" 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 1995 07:18:44 PDT."
             <199508151418.HAA07478@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> 
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:00:34 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@panix.com>


Eric Allman writes:
> 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.

Not to quibble, but there is another very useful purpose: those of us
who have lots of places we send mail from but only one we get it
delivered to tend to use Reply-To: for the purpose of pointing our
mail at one spot and not to indicate "please only send me the
reply". I've been using it as such for years now and it seems to have
always worked. (This very message is being sent by way of Panix, an
ISP in NYC, but has a Reply-to: perry@piermont.com on it.)

.pm