On Sunday February 07 2021 22:24, you wrote to me:
SM>>>> Should the Ping Robot take into account the ^aREPLYTO kludge? AV>>> No. MvdV>> Could you elaborate a bit on that? MvdV>> Not that I want to dispute it, I want to understand.
AV> That would be just a waste of time... briefly: it allows the sender to AV> affect the routing,
Or more accurate: the destination for the response.
Eerlier today I sent two messages to PING at 2:460/58. The first one was a message as I always sent. The second message had a "@REPLYTO 2:460/5858" kludge added to it.
I received a reply from the first message within minutes. The second one ... no reply yet.
I hope this experiment demonstrates that a PING robot honouring a REPLYTO kludge may not be such a good idea.