reply-all should be discouraged

[Jeff Kletsky]

Not RFC2822

Non-standard header not beginning with X-

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt 
expired in 1998 and contains the comment

This proposal does not represent any consensus opinion in the drums
working group at this time (21 November 1997).

Insisting everyone support your non-standard demands sounds like 
Microsoft's approach to the Internet. Why don't you insist that all 
mailers natively support Exchange-isms?

I agree, for those that know about the header and have agents that 
support it, it is convenient. However, it is not appropriate to demand 
that a non-standard feature be supported by all agents. That is exactly 
what the standards-track RFCs are for.

I find that there is plenty to filter on in the headers emitted by the 
GNUCash mailing lists.




On 2/21/10 10:29 PM, cognitive.libertarian+ml at gmail.com wrote:
> * Fred Bone<Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>  [2010-02-22 07:15]:
>    
>>> The proper way for someone to request personal copies simply to
>>> include the header "Mail-Followup-To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, [their
>>> personal address]".
>>>        
>> "Proper"? Please cite the RFC that standardises this. AFAIK it only
>> ever made it to Internet-Draft status.
>>      
> The RFCs give good guidance on what's considered proper, but you're
> trying to reverse that, and expect everything considered proper to
> trace back to an RFC.  I don't expect to find all forms of etiquette
> and "good ideas" (tm) to appear in an RFC.
>
> Since you seem to consider Mail-Followup-To improper, please tell us
> the proper way to indicate reply preference.
>
> You outright disregarded my preference in your reply to my post, and
> in a discussion around it, so I would be interested to know what type
> of indicator would compel you to not send personal copies of public
> replies to those who don't want to receive them, if Mail-Followup-To
> is unacceptible to you.
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