RE: Mailserv subscriptions

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From: Daniel C. Newman
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:02

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> One of our mailing list maintainers reports that SUBSCRIBE seems to be using
> the From: address rather than the Reply-To address.  I can see some logic
> for that but I suspect that the latter might be a better choice.   Does the
> pseudo-standard specify or is the a clear logic for using the one?

Ned might have a different take on this; I just want to toss in my two bits.

I've seen mailers & user agents which always put all From:, To:, and Cc:
addresses onto the Reply-to: line.  There's nothing inherently wrong with
doing so.  However, this is a case where you would certainly not want to
use the Reply-to: address.  The last thing you want to do is to automatically
subscribe the list to itself!

Dan

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Date: 18 Dec 1992 09:02:36 -0700 (PDT)
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