On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:59:55PM -0500, Aaron Schrab wrote:
> At 13:45 -0500 25 Jul 2000, Ronny Haryanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On a slightly different but related subject, why can't "Reply-To" be
> > used instead of "Mail-Followup-To"? Most mailers have already
> > supported "Reply-To", so why not use that?
>
> Because that wouldn't allow the person responding to (easily) choose
> between sending the reply to the entire list or to just the author of
> the original message.
but there are mailers (pine) which don't offer the possiblity to
choose between replying and following-up. And I think really a lot
of people are using these mailers. I bet the fraction of people not
beeing able to make this difference is still > 1/2.
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Johannes