hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes) said:
Yet RFC-822 is followed as much in the breach as in the observance.
Not only that, but it is woefully shortsighted. For instance, when I reply to messages from email lists, sometimes I want to reply to the list, and sometimes to the originator. The variations in RFC-822 *compliant* email list headers are staggering; I have yet to see any mail software that understands the variety of syntactically- parseable signals that show that something is from a list, and allows me to easily reply to either the list or the sender. This is a technically trivial wish. It could be done, at least to the 95% mark, even as things stand. But NOOOOOoooo. :-) Similar comments apply to saving things interactively. I'm about to try procmail for non-interactive uses, but I still haven't seen a mailer that lets me say e.g. "(save (from cypherpunks | to cypherpunks | cc cypherpunks | Bcc cypherpunks | "From " cypherpunks) > savefile) & delete Maybe I'm just email-challenged. Suggestions? Doug