Saturday, December 11, 1999, 7:41:18 AM, Jor-el wrote:
> However, I couldnt help but notice a reply from Steve Lamb to your
> link on debian-devel (dont know why he did that since the Reply-To is set
> to this list). Here is the link that he mentions :
Because of a lack of reply-to and I forgot which list the message was in.
> I must say that this represents the usual attitude I've seen from
> close-minded admins (who thankfully are few and far between) : if the
> behaviour that I dislike is allowed by the RFC's, the hell with the
> RFC's!
*laugh* Oh, thank you. Thank you so much for pointing this out!
> Subpoint 1 : Just because you havent had experience with such behaviour
> doesnt give you a mandate to wipe out such RFC allowed behaviour. As I've
> said in another email : if you dont like it, write up another RFC and get
> it approved.
I don't wipe out such behavior. In fact, as one of the *OPEN* minded
admins out there I don't throw away the RFC just because I don't like it.
In fact, let me quote to you the 2nd paragraph of my message which you
obviously skipped.
"First off, as pointed out in another part of this forum one of the intended
uses of the reply-to field is mailing lists (called discussion lists) and is a
part of 822. Keep this in mind."
For those playing along at home, that is section 4.4.3 of RFC822.
"A somewhat different use may be of some help to "text message
teleconferencing" groups equipped with automatic distribution services:
include the address of that service in the "Reply- To" field of all messages
submitted to the teleconference; then participants can "reply" to conference
submissions to guarantee the correct distribution of any submission of their
own."
In short, administrators who do not set the reply-to on their lists and, in
fact, falsely claim that such a thing is disallowed are the ones who are close
minded and are saying "to hell with the RFC's [sic]!"
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Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
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