mail followups (was Re: [ILUG] DHCP on home LAN?)

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, kevin lyda wrote:

> and if you set Mail-Followup-To correctly that's what you'll get. 
> since you choose not to, you don't.

If you're trying to wind me up, please add a smiley. If not:

For someone as clever as I know you are, you can be awfully stupid 
sometimes.

If I fail to insert some header defined by a long defunct draft, why 
should mail clients break behaviour? Indeed, how am I even supposed 
to know about what clients implement what drafts? Further, Mutt's 
behaviour is *not* mandated by the mail-followup-to draft, which does 
not state *anywhere* that absence of mail-followup-to should imply 
"mail-followup-to: list". So even if i did have intimate knowledge of 
all MUA related drafts, it wouldnt lead me to any conclusion other 
than "Well, I dont need to set that header".

If I were to come along and demand that people honour some odd header 
that only pine implemented, you'd laugh, furthermore you'd likely 
argue similar to above.

> kevin

regards,
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