Mail-Followup-To:

[Mark Mielke]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:06:10PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > You fill in Mail-Followup-To:, then my mailer does what you want me to.
> Really - Is that what you think your mailer is doing ?   :-)

Yes. Note that I, like a number of people, *prefer* to receive two copies.

> This is fascinating - out of the last 1200 or so emails I received from
> this list, only 22 had any header with the word followup in it.
> Here is what it looked like:
> Mail-Followup-To:
> Hmm - almost no one is setting this header, but most replies are only
> going to the list.  Do you suppose that people replying to a list might
> use a different command than the one they use to reply to an individual ?

I am sure they are. Note, though, that this doesn't allow for a person
to *request* a personal response.

> Be conservative in what you send, and flexible in what you accept.

I will send you what you ask for. If you don't like what you are
asking for, follow the protocol and set Mail-Followup-To:.

Thank you,
mark

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