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  1. Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!ifi.uio.no!enag
  3. From: Erik Naggum <enag@ifi.uio.no>
  4. Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
  5. Message-ID: <23336A@erik.naggum.no>
  6. Date: 09 Sep 1992 16:43:27 +0200
  7. References: <18ge7eINN6r9@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep8.143012.26550@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  8. Subject: Re: I need to add an "Originally-From:" header to my mailing list posts.
  9. Lines: 20
  10.  
  11. Steven D. Majewski <sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU> writes:
  12. |
  13. |   Another possible format is:
  14. |
  15. |   From: originator@some.where
  16. |   Sender: sfraves-request@other.place
  17. |   Reply-To: sfraves@other.place
  18.  
  19. Please don't.  This causes a large number of misaddressed messages, and
  20. makes naive users unnecessarily involved in headers, since they can't
  21. reply to the author without replying to the whole list.
  22.  
  23. This problem is compounded if the messages is crossposted to several
  24. lists.
  25.  
  26. We should have learned from BITNET listservers by now, although they
  27. seem to be very hard dying.
  28.  
  29. Best regards,
  30. </Erik>
  31. --
  32. Erik Naggum             |  ISO  8879 SGML     |      +47 295 0313
  33.                         |  ISO 10744 HyTime   |
  34. <erik@naggum.no>        |  ISO 10646 UCS      |      Memento, terrigena.
  35. <enag@ifi.uio.no>       |  ISO  9899 C        |      Memento, vita brevis.
  36.