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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>> "BT" == Brandie Tarvin <BRANDIE@CCS.UNOMAHA.EDU> writes: BT> So, basically, the RFC is sort of like ANSI. Just an accepted BT> standard practice without any basis in legalities, right? Sort of. The difference is that ANSI is a standards body and the collection of Internet RFCs are just that, a collection of seemingly random documents requesting feedback. BT> The letter saying that the Reply-To = <listname> violates that BT> standard almost made it sound like it is illegal to set something BT> like that up. Not illegal, per se, since there is no law to back them up. But RFC-822 is the accepted standard, and it should not be violated without a damn good reason. The only reason for the reply_to option is to (over)compensate for broken MUAs. But that does not fix the broken MUAs, and it does cause problems for those of us with MUAs which work correctly. Although this is not quite so bad as some versions of Listserv which rewrote the From header; that generated some *really* nasty feedback loops since errors go back to the envelope sender (From), which has been rewritten to point to the list. Bouncie-bouncie! BTW, did you (the list at large "you") know that Gnus, the GNU Emacs mail and news reader, has a "broken-reply-to" flag specifically to deal with mailing lists which incorrectly set Reply-To headers? You really know your "features" and "fixes" are annoying when people go out of their way to write code to disable them. BT> <hehe> Better watch out, everyone. The RFC Secret Police <related BT> to the Fashion/Phone/Matress Police> are out to get anyone violating BT> an RFC. Nah, the Internet is self-policing. BT> Even if it IS the one about Datatransmissions and Avian BT> Carriers. @=) That is the great thing about the enlightened anarchy that is the Intenet; we do not have to accept totally ludicrous standards. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMdQ1356VRH7BJMxHAQFb+AQAnarjrihygNO9/+9NSgumrM00TNxCeyZM nvToE3Eacfd1dmynH8b1JL3zRDDkEiPr9NLYsEu/Ru6VIJrZRFBr7oZ9Ih4A1XqI ih6W2HxHel4ib57DtEOTFjG44HS+SoMd8Bv3+7vJZ/w+OLIfbZv7wv/3TAm4JJYd H22U840BdwI= =G8HG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Richard Pieri/Information Services \ Curiosity never killed anything, except <ratinox@unilab.dfci.harvard.edu> \ maybe a few hours. -A cat's guide to life http://www.dfci.harvard.edu/ \ References:
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