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Re: "Reply-To: " rather than "Reply-to:"

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From: Bill Carpenter
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1991 23:32
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jwz> Case sensitivity is one of the worst parts of the C/Unix legacy.
jwz> Those who contribute to it should be flogged.  Kyle, give not an
jwz> inch!

I agree, but for a slightly different reason.  

To rephrase the above, "Ancient poorly-designed piece-of-crap mailers
are one of the worst parts of the C/Unix legacy.  Those who continue
to use them and complain about compliant mailers (like VM) on the
sending end should be flogged."

My favorite stupid-crud-mailer complaint is "Your mailer puts commas
between addresses in the headers.  When I hit 'R' to reply, my mailer
<euphemism for 'fails miserably'>.  Can you do something about your
mailer?"  I used to hear this all the time until some of the other
local mail programs got smarter, and the rest of the people I guess
just got tired of me answering "Your mailer is <another colorful
euphemism meaning 'not the best available technology'>".

[Now, having said all that, I don't care if Kyle wants to change
"Reply-to:" to "Reply-To:".  In fact, I probably won't even notice
(much).]
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  Bill Carpenter         att!hos1cad!wjc  or  attmail!bill
  (908) 949-8392         AT&T Bell Labs,  HO 1L-410
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Subject: Re: "Reply-To: " rather than "Reply-to:"
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