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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Replying to a mailing list and Reply-To

> In Usenet News, the References field is used, but in news such messages
> are not called "replies",

That depends. Many newsreaders---especially integrated mail/news
readers---use References for replies as well as followups. Simplicity
wins.

Anyway, you're missing the point. I don't care what particular name we
assign to the message-addressed-to-Reply-To-defaulting-to-From concept.
I'm simply saying that it deserves a name.

---Dan
Let your users manage their own mailing lists. http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html