usefor-article-08 August 2002

6.8.  Mail-Copies-To

   The Mail-Copies-To-header indicates whether or not the poster wishes
   to have followups to an article emailed in addition to being posted
   to Netnews and, if so, establishes the address to which they should
   be sent.

   The content syntax makes use of syntax defined in [RFC 2822], but
   subject to the revised definition of local-part given in section 5.2.

      header      =/ Mail-Copies-To-header
      Mail-Copies-To-header
        = "Mail-Copies-To" ":" SP Mail-Copies-To-content
      Mail-Copies-To-content
        = copy-addr / [CFWS] ( "nobody" / "poster" ) [CFWS]
      copy-addr   = address-list

   The keyword "nobody" indicates that the poster does not wish copies
   of any followup postings to be emailed. This indication is widely
   seen as a very strong wish, and is to be taken as the default when
   this header is absent.

   The keyword "poster" indicates that the poster wishes a copy of any
   followup postings to be emailed to him.

   Otherwise, this header contains a copy-addr to which the poster
   wishes a copy of any followup postings to be sent.

        NOTE: Some existing practice uses the keyword "never" in place
        of "nobody" and "always" in place of "poster". These usages are
        deprecated, but followup agents MAY observe them.

   The automatic actions of a followup agent in the various cases
   (subject to manual override by the user) are as follows:

   nobody (or when the header is absent)
      The followup agent SHOULD NOT, by default, email such a copy and
      Ought, especially when there is an explicit "nobody", to issue a
      warning and ask for confirmation if the user attempts to do so.
   poster
      The followup agent Ought, by default, to email a copy, which MUST
      then be sent to the address(es) in the Reply-To-header, and in the
      absence of that to the address(es) in the From-header.

   copy-addr
      The followup agent Ought, by default, to email a copy, which MUST
      then be sent to the copy-addr.

        NOTE: This header is only relevant when posting followups to
        Netnews articles, and is to be ignored when sending pure email
        replies to the poster, which are handled as prescribed under the
        Reply-To-header (6.1).  Whether or not this header will also
        find similar usage for replies to messages sent to mailing lists
        falls outside the scope of this standard.

   When emailing a copy, the followup agent SHOULD also include a
   "Posted-And-Mailed: yes" header (6.9).

        NOTE: In addition to the Posted-And-Mailed-header, some followup
        agents also include within the body a mention that the article
        is both posted and mailed, for the benefit of reading agents
        that do not normally show that header.

--- ../usefor-article-07/Mail-Copies-To.out          May 2002
+++ ../usefor-article-08/Mail-Copies-To.out          August 2002
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
       The followup agent SHOULD NOT, by default, email such a copy and
       Ought, especially when there is an explicit "nobody", to issue a
       warning and ask for confirmation if the user attempts to do so.
-
    poster
       The followup agent Ought, by default, to email a copy, which MUST
       then be sent to the address(es) in the Reply-To-header, and in the