Brian Nelson wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:22:02PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2004-08-09, Tim Connors penned:
What I am saying, is all of these discussion lists have differnt
policies. It's kind of silly expecting people to remember which
policy belongs to which list, and blasting people when they get it
wrong.
My understanding is that gmane translates my Mail-Copies-To: never into the appropriate mail followup header. I've asked a couple of times if this is working, and no one has said anything to me, so I assume it is. In fact:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/08/msg00281.html
shows:
# Mail-copies-to: never # Mail-followup-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aren't these the vaunted headers? And yet, I get cc'd, or directly
emailed, all the time. Either people's clients or broken, or they are.
Either way, the headers don't work. Not reliably.
Unfortunately, those headers are not specified in the relevant RFCs and are not in wide use outside of Linux and other highly technical mailing lists. Support for MFT and MCT headers is strictly optional, so many mail client authors/vendors simply choose not to support them.
If they're not blessed by RFC then they should be X-Mail-copies-to: etc. All permissible headers are enumerated by RFC, and if they're not in the list they are explicitly disallowed.
Howver, _any_ header beginning "X-" _is_ allowed as an unofficial or experiemental header.
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