> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> > 4. Insist that everyone using mailing lists insert the Reply-To:
> > themselves with the list address if they want their submissions
> > to a discussion list to actually be discussed instead of becoming
> > private mail.
> >
> > 5. Fix the mailing list software to insert the Reply-To: header that
> > I wanted but my own mailer wouldn't insert for me.
>
> 6. Fix the User Agent to do what the User Wants. Doing what the user wants
> is the User Agent's job. The problem you are decribing is a user agent
> that is not in fact functioning adequately as the user's agent when
> dealing with the user's mailing list interactions. This is simply the
> correct means of implementing number 4 above, and makes 5 unnecessary.
>
> The user agent needs at least two distinct types of response to an article
> posting letter item or document: respond to where the document is going or
> respond to the author of the document.
You are right, of course. Let me know when this step is complete.
However, I don't quite understand why we need mailing list software
if User Agents are supposed to do everything by themselves. Why
not make all user agents capable of obtaining the envelope address
list and expanding it themselves instead of submitting through
software that understands the concept of discussion lists and
processes it accordingly?
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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