[142740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Jul 12 12:28:23 2011
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:22:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m2wrfn1org.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> > Also, where is the reply to header?
>
> still in the garbage, where it belongs
NANOG, being a traditional, (semi-)public, technical mailing list, has never
had a Reply-to header, and never should. I concur with the people who assert
that adding the Reply-to header formally violates the relevant RFCs, quite
aside from the Real World problems it can (and *has*) caused.
http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
Cheers,
-- jra
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