On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:21:38PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> the only quasi-official reference i've been able to find on the
> Mail-Followup-To header is:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt
> 
> while i think that this becoming standard would be a Good Thing, since
> the draft is from 1997, it would seem unlikely that it will be adopted

> does anyone else have information on what it would take to set the
> proverbial wheel turning on getting this adopted as some sort of
> official standard?
> 
There are many RFC's in use as "standards" that never got beyond being
draft standards "officially" I believe.

If anyone wants to put some energy into this try and get Microsoft
to adhere to a few standard standards with regard to email, that
would be some achievement.

To answer your question I should think there is zilch you can do about
it. Sounds to me like the pine-people are just batting you off.

Inter-operabilty.. who needs it ..lol. Wietse Venema, the author
of Postfix, remarked once on the amount of code he had in his software
to get around broken mailer implementations.

-- 
Regards
Cliff


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