Message-Id: <199712241933.OAA08260@CS.UTK.EDU>
To: esr@snark.thyrsus.com
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu
From: "Roger Fajman" <RAF@CU.NIH.GOV>
Date:     Wed, 24 Dec 1997  14:29:33 EST
Subject:  Re:  How to find a solution

> That's a pretty good assumption to start from.  It's not like Internet
> email is an infant technology; there's a huge user and code base, and
> the cost of deliberately breaking compatibility with the 99% of it
> that assumes Personal-Reply-To semantics would be just too high.

It's hard for me to see that new headers involve lesser changes to
the code base (especially if UAs are now expected to track mailing
list subscriptions), than a few changes to the user interface.

As for the users, most of them don't understand how the current
Reply functions work and/or are unable to apply them properly.
So changes that make things easier for users to get things
right are a plus.