> At 11:14 AM -0500 12/1/96, John Buckman wrote:
> >We've decided that in the next version of Lyris, the contents of the
> >To: header in outgoing mail will be user-configurable. You'll have
> ...
> >Also, though many list servers use a Reply-To header which points
> >back to the list, some people feel very strongly that this is a bad
>
> Configuration switches are Good Things. But so are defaults.
>
> what are you setting for these two items?
Quite honestly, I don't know yet, as it will depend on what kind of
user feedback we get. Initially, I'd guess that Reply-To: would be
on by default, and that the To: header will be set to be untouched
rather than the recipient's address.
On a LISTSERV list that I'm on, it seems that To: is always rewritten
to be the listname/description, regardless of what the user put
there, as in:
To: Multiple recipients of list K2000 <K2000@AMERICAN.EDU>
I don't know if this is the default behavior or not. How do people
feel about this?
On the positive side, it gives simple mail filters which use the To:
line something to work with. On the negative side, it disobeys the
rule of not rewriting headers, and the question of what to do with
the original To: is a little sticky (put in on the CC: line?, drop
it completely?)
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Regarding putting the listname on the subject line -- why not put it
at the end of the subject line, rather than at the beginning? As
in:
Subject: review of new Brandenburg CD
becomes:
Subject: review of new Brandenburg CD [bach-l]
This method works around whether to put the listname before or after
the Re: (thereby not screwing up message threads), gives something
for the mail filter to work with, and is less visibly intrusive for
the reader.
John
john@shelby.com, Shelby Group Ltd., http://www.shelby.com/
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