Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 23:02:27 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za>
To: ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Reply-To"
In-Reply-To: <199508162042.QAA27222@info.cren.net>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, Jim Conklin wrote:
>   Please understand that mailing-list managers (as distinguished from
> list expanders) have for years been acting as surrogate senders for
> message originators who send their mail to these lists perfectly happy
> that the mailing-list manager acts as Sender for their message to the
> list and, as Sender, creates a Reply-To header as the participants of
> the list have either agreed to or accepted as appropriate for that
> list.

Such mailing list managers should change the Message-ID to show that
the message they are sending (with munged headers) is not the same as
the message that they received.

--apb (Alan Barrett)