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- In article <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no> kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens) writes:
- > In article <Kevin_Phair.0411@bgi.internet-eireann.ie>,
- > Kevin_Phair@bgi.internet-eireann.ie (Kevin Phair) writes:
- > >If you mean 99.9% of *Thor* users, you may be right. However, this is
- > >probably because they couldn't figure out Inetutils and wouldn't be
- > >using it anyway.
- >
- > Yes, and? That's the whole point. Of course there are other nice things too,
- > such as not kludgy Reply-To: lines, progress indicators, subscribing etc.
-
- Kludgy?
-
- Hardly. Now, your setup allows a user to say "hey, I'm this person, ignore
- the rest of my configuration". INetUtils and GRn can be forced to do that
- too, in any version. I think it's wrong. That's why they don't make it
- trivial to do.
-
- Every computer has an assigned name. RFC-822 (4.4.1) says that the From:
- field should be constructed by taking the identity of the person creating
- the message (the user) and "default this field to be a single authenticated
- machine address".
-
- And 4.4.3 denotes Reply-To as being the mailbox to which replies, if any,
- are to be sent.
-
- Granted that GRn 2.1 makes it somewhat difficult to enter a reply-to header,
- since it requires you to create a file. GRn 3.0 recognizes the ReplyTo
- environment variable, significantly simplifying that process. Last I
- checked, Voodoo was to also recognize this, and AmigaElm has for quite
- some time.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
-