95145 - "Followup-To: poster" not implemented to RFC 1036

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 3745

(MailNews Core :: Networking: NNTP, defect)

Description

[David Wallace Croft]

According to RFC 1036, "Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages", replies to
newsgroup messages with the header "Followup-To" value of "poster" should be
sent back to the e-mail address of the original sender.

From Section "2.2.3. Followup-To":
"If the keyword poster is present, follow-up messages are not permitted. The
message should be mailed to the submitter of the message via mail."
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1036/rfc1036.html

Both the Mozilla 0.9.3 and the Netscape 6.1 implementations deviate from this
Internet standard in that they send such messages to a newsgroup called "poster"
instead of the e-mail address of the poster.  The result is that many replies to
newsgroup messages will be lost, disrupting communication.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3745 ***

Comment 2

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup.