On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 07:00:22PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > In the muc groups' articles, why not set the "followup-to:" > > header to be the mailing list e-mail address? > > Because newsreaders are expecting newsgroups to be listed in the > followup-to, and it wouldn't work?
Though it doesn't obey RFC1036, slrn handles it -- I assumed other newsreaders would also. It would proably be more compliant with RFC 1036 to do Followup-to: poster Reply-To: <mailing-list> The problem is that the RFC is a unclear on what "Followup-To: poster" actually means. The RFC text states tha the followup is to be e-mailed to the article's "submitter". Unfortunately, the RFC never defines "submitter". It could be determined by the From: the Reply-To: or the Sender: headers. The RFC is clear that "replies" are to be sent to the reply-to: address if present, but the RFC never actually states where followups are to be e-mailed. I _assume_ that Reply-To: is supposed to be used (that's what slrn does), but it would be nice if it were so stated. -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
