3 Feb
2000
3 Feb
'00
8:15 a.m.
On Feb 3, 18:00, Hans Franke wrote:
So here's my ME-TOO-NOT-LIKE-THE-NEW mail:
Last but not least, it's the RFC 822 way - and
standards are the
only real chance to go along.
Except that mailing lists are not what RFC 822 defined "Reply-to:" for.
Its primary purpose is quite different; it's to force a reply to a valid
address when the sender's "From:" is not valid.
Quote: "The "Reply-To" field is added by the originator"
The RFC 822 method would be to set the "From:" field to
"classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org" , and set the "Sender:" field to the name
of
the person who originated the message (which is exactly the opposite to
what majordomo is doing, I notice, but that's perfectly legitimate).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York