Re: followup from e-mail (begging)
Albert Y.C. Lai (trebla@io.org)
Fri, 05 Jul 1996 13:39:32 -0400
In article <yBF3xItuuH0M091yn@zems.fer.hr>,
aivanise@zems.fer.hr (Aleksandar Ivanisevic) wrote:
>Chin, please disable 'F' or 'f' when reading mail. Or put a
>warning or something. If i receive a mail reply (or courtesy cc:)
>that contains Newsgroups: header, and accidentally hit 'F' instead
>of 'R', my reply will go straight to the newsgroup(s) without any
>warning. You can imagine how embarrassing that can be :-)
Indeed. As far as I know, Pine was the first email agent to blur the
distinction between news articles and emails. It adds Newsgroups
headers to emails, and lures users into posting private email replies
to public newsgroups.
It is noteworthy that none of RFC-822 (email basics), RFC-1049
(Content-type headers), and RFC-1341 (MIME, further extends RFC-1049)
allow a Newsgroups header in emails.
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Albert Y.C. Lai trebla@io.org http://www.io.org/~trebla/