Re: mail/post forwarding now has an option to forward all original headers

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

>> I use `gnus-article-followup-with-original', should you use
>> something else?
>
> When you reply via newsgroup posting (which is implied by
> the "followup"), then headers don't come into play, only the
> "newsgroups" header, and the message is sent via NNTP to
> those groups. There's no CC to anybody else.

Ah, that's the reason, mystery solved.

> If you reply via mail, then you will send an email to
> everyone in the To/CC/BCC headers, and there's where you'll
> see commands with "reply" and "(very) wide" in the name.
>
> It only gets a bit confusing because if you reply to an
> article that originally arrived via NNTP, often the email
> goes to an email address that can transport the message over
> to the NNTP newsgroup, so it looks like you did both
> a followup (to the group) and a reply (to individual
> posters). The whole thing gets a little strange.

Yes, I put it there manually this time. I don't do
that usually.

Now that this little issue makes sense, I don't think there is
a need to do anything about it. Let it be.

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