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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:50:14 -0700
From: "Brent B. Welch" <Brent.Welch@eng.sun.com>


>>>Jacob Palme said:

 > 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.

Can you remind me why:
 "From" could not be equivalent to "Personal-Reply-To"
 and "Reply-To" could not be equivalent to "Wide-Reply-To" ??

I realize that many folks use Reply-To to salvage broken From lines,
but I don't think we need to optimize for them by introducing new headers.

I don't think it is possible for us (or in the group's charter :-) to prevent
users from accidentally spamming a mailing list by getting the
reply address wrong.  The MUA's give the user the "reply" or "reply all"
options, users have some default, and quite often they don't pay
very much attention to their headers, leading to mistakes.

--	Brent Welch	Sun Labs	brent.welch@sun.com