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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: cos@leftbank.com
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: How Reply SHOULD Work 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:36:35 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:53:51 -0400
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> OK, I took the bait, and sent out a straw poll to a bunch of people
> who use email but aren't very familiar with the standards and
> protocols.  I got back about 50 responses.  I've collected my mail and
> their responses at ftp://ftp.leftbank.com/pub/cos/m.drums

Ordinary users' opinions about email headers are no more relevant than
their opinions about, say, TCP type-of-service bits.

Now if you had asked something like:

When you send a message, do you want to be able to recommend that
replies be sent just to you (or to some other set of addresses),
rather than to you and all of the recipients of that message?  

Or do you only want to be able to recommend where *your* replies
should go?

...you might get a very different answer.  Especially from people who
participate in long email discussions which tend to accumulate lots of
people in the CC list...

Keith