On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:09:46 +1300 (NZDT) John Morton <jwm@plain.co.nz> wrote:

The Reply-To field is intended to be a way for you to indicate the email address that you can be contacted with when the one your sending from doesn't necessarily receive email - ie, you're migrating between accounts, or posting to a publicly accessible list from an account that isn't receiving email from that list. Whatever. The point is that we want to keep people's reply-to fields where possible.

A small note: Given a message with a CC list list _and_ a Reply-To set, a group reply on Many (even most?) MUAs will send the reply to the Reply-To and ignore the CC list (IIRC the RFC is ambiguous in this matter). In this manner if an individual is using Reply-To correctly (to hide the fact that they can't receive mail at their From: address), they are also cutting the other recipients out of the loop for replies. Dangerous. Conversely, if a list does do reply-to munging, this doesn't happen, but the "proper" address for the original post is usually lost. This is off-topic however. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw@kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder@kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--