Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 18:32:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
To: ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
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Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> writes:

> On the other hand, with new headers, things instantly get
> worse, as initially almost no-one understands the new headers,
> and all they cause is confusion.   There would need to be all
> kinds of bizarre rules to quantify just what happens when all 3
> headers are present and contain different values, etc.
> Further, unless universally adopted (fat chance) things can
> never get much better than we now have, and we just have to
> carry around more excess header baggage all the time.

There is no confusion.

Those who do not understand "Personal-Reply-To" and "Wide-Reply-To"
should just ignore them. They can interpret "Reply-To" if they
did that before. No more confusion than before.

Those who do understand "Personal-Reply-To" and "Wide-Reply-To"
should use them and ignore any "Reply-To". This will eliminate
the present confusion.

For an intermediate period, mail creation software and some
mailing list expansion software might chooseto generate both
"Reply-To", "Personal-Reply-To" and "Wide-Reply-To".

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme