[plug] New PLUG news server

Bernd Felsche bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au
Wed Sep 29 18:55:46 WST 2004


Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> writes:

>Bernd Felsche wrote:

>> The Followup-To should be preserved. No reason at all to toss that
>> one out.

>AFAIK, the Followup-To /is/ being preserved[1], but mail clients aren't
>listening to it (because following up to a mail message on a newsgroup
>isn't generally supported).  Maybe we should be mangling it into an
>appropriate Mail-Followup-To line... but then the PLUG lists insert a
>reply-to header of their own so that most mailers will ignore the M-F-T
>and reply only to the one list anyway.

>Cameron.  (Who doesn't like lists which set Reply-To, but thinks that
>people in general would be unhappy if the PLUG lists didn't.)

>[1] Let's check... this message should have a Followup-To of plug.list
>and plug.test.

Evidently!

But let's see what happens when I post.
-- 
/"\ Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
\ /  ASCII ribbon campaign | I'm a .signature virus!
 X   against HTML mail     | Copy me into your ~/.signature
/ \  and postings          | to help me spread!



More information about the plug mailing list