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From: "Mohit Agarwal" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: list move
> On 2000-11-30, at 22:51 +0100, Phillip Helbig wrote:
>
> > Sometimes the sender might have his OWN Reply-To: address. What happens
> > then? The SENSIBLE thing to do would be that the list software inserts
> > this into the From: header, and has the original From: address in an
> > X-Originally-From: header or something similar.
>
> Yes, you can configure all that in pine. But why would anybody writing to
a
> mailing list would want to add a "Reply to:" himself. I don't find any
rational
> reason for doing so, unless the sender is using one email address to post
and
> wants to receive at the other. In any case, the "Reply to:" header added
by the
> list will override.
>
> > You DON'T have a space after the "--" above!
>
> This seems to be a problem in this list.
>
> Some more work for you Ian.
>
> > Is this just a Pine thing or is there some official standard, RFC etc
> > which says that .sigs should begin with "-- "? (I don't use pine but
> > have added a space after my "--".)
>
> As I mentioned above, there seems to be some problem in the list software
> regarding this. There's no space visible after the "--". I'll have to
reread
> RFC822, I'm not sure whether it says so. However, you can make pine to
strip
> off the mail below the sigdashes while replying. That makes it fairly
> convenient in case seombody has a 1.5 kB signature file (I've, indeed,
come
> across such signature files.) The disclaimers that the mailers in some
> companies attach are even longer.
>
> p.s. Some points to check out for Ian:
> (1) Why don't I get the mails that I post?
> (2) Why do people send autoreplies to mails on a mailing list? I'd
personally
> urge them not to do so. They can use some mail filter to sort out the
mails
> from a list and then let the autoresponder do the work for the rest of the
> mails.
> (3) Why does the trailing space "-- " in my sig disappear when I post on
the
> list? It never (*never*) disappears otherwise. Thanks to Phillip Helbig
for
> pointing this out.
>
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> Mohit Agarwal
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