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From: Keith Moore <moore@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU>
cc: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>, drums@CS.UTK.EDU, moore@CS.UTK.EDU
Subject: Re: summing up: the meaning of the reply-to header 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 1995 20:07:46 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 23:59:08 -0400
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As for the use of Reply-to to indicate the sender's "real" reply address:

I'd treat this similar to the use of Reply-to by mailing lists.  It's
sanctioned by RFC 822, and outlawing it would cause undue harm, because 
many user agents don't allow a user to set the From header.

So we can't get rid of it, but we can suggest that the From header
is a better way to indicate the author's "real" mailing address,
and perhaps that user agents MAY (or SHOULD) provide a way to let 
the author set the From header address. 

Keith