Message-Id: <199710290638.BAA07368@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: kaih@khms.westfalen.de
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date:     Wed, 29 Oct 1997  01:33:49 EST
Subject:  Re:  Isolating one big problem.

> (1) It is not yet clear that Group-Reply-To: is the right solution here.
> It may be, but I think this needs more thought.

Yes.

> (2) The new solution will have to live alongside the old solution for
> quite some time, while list servers and UAs slowly begin to implement the
> new solution and, even more slowly, are being deployed.

Absolutely.

> Personally, I'm beginning to think the right solution may well be to
> deprecate Reply-To: and do a new header for every Reply-To: function that
> we want to support.
>
> That way, people can keep doing whatever they have been doing with Reply-
> To: until the new solution is deployed, without sabotaging it in the
> meantime, because that's what they _will_ do.
>
> MfG Kai

I agree.  I don't see how any other way could work.