Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Message-Id: <199508252320.TAA01352@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: drums@CS.UTK.EDU
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date:     Fri, 25 Aug 1995  19:19:17 EDT
Subject:  Re:  From the Chair:  the Reply-To issue

> [ ] where replies to the message should be sent
>
>     (thus for the recipient to honor the author's wishes, the reply
>     the addresses in the reply-to header rather than to any of the
>     other combinations)
>
> [ ] where replies to the *author* should be sent
>
>     (thus a reply might reasonably be sent to the
>     reply-to address + addresses from the to and cc headers,
>     without violating the author's intent)

If those are the only choices, I have to go with the first one.
However, I prefer this:

[ ] where replies to the message probably should be sent

    (thus for the recipient to honor the sender's suggestion, the reply
    goes to the addresses in the reply-to header rather than to any of the
    other combinations)

That is, "sender" instead of "author" and "suggestion" instead of "wishes".
It's the sender of the reply who knows best where it should go.