On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:52, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:23:01AM -0600, Justin Gombos wrote:
>> Mail-Followup-To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
>
>Note where the added header ended up, in the body, not the headers.
>
I had an X-follow-up line in the header of that message.

>> > > OTOH-- if you want to talk about etiquette, you should try not
>> > > to ignore the mail-followup-to header on mailing list posts.
>> >
>> > I just looked back at your original post.  I see no header
>> > directing followups anywhere.  Jonathan knows that many posters,
>> > particularly new posters, do not subscribe to the list.  It is
>> > not a requirement for posting.  Thus as a courtesy to you he
>> > sent a copy to you as well as to the list.
>>
>> I just verified that I sent a Mail-Followup-To header.  It seems
>> the mailing list software is stripping out the Mail-Followup-To
>> headers. So you are correct, Jonathan did not fail to honor the
>> header, but rather the list software.
>>
>> I'll have to come up with alternatives.  Maybe a mutt hook that
>> will automatically append a signature with the Mail-Followup-To
>> preferences.  As a test, I'm adding a Mail-Followup-To line to the
>> body and a X-Mail-Followup-To header to see if the list strips
>> that too.

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