gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Roderick Schertler]

When I respond to a mail message I practically always want to respond to
everybody who saw it (everybody in the From, To and Cc headers).  I'm
surprised that September doesn't have a built-in way to do this.  Did I
just miss it?  I suspect this is the case because the lack just seems
too bizarre.

If not how about adding a pre-defined function for this the user can set
gnus-reply-to-function to?

(defun gnus-reply-to-everybody (group)
  "Respond to everybody who saw the original message.
This function is meant as a possible value for gnus-reply-to-function
or gnus-followup-to-function."
  (loop for c in `(("To" . ,(or (mail-fetch-field "reply-to")
				(mail-fetch-field "from")))
		   ("cc" . ,(mail-fetch-field "to"))
		   ("cc" . ,(mail-fetch-field "cc")))
	if (cdr c) collect c))

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@gate.net

Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Muhammad Farrukh Khan]

> 
> When I respond to a mail message I practically always want to respond to
> everybody who saw it (everybody in the From, To and Cc headers).  I'm
> 

Try f or F.

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Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[d. hall]

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Roderick> When I respond to a mail message I practically always want to
Roderick> respond to everybody who saw it (everybody in the From, To and Cc
Roderick> headers).  I'm surprised that September doesn't have a built-in
Roderick> way to do this.  Did I just miss it?  I suspect this is the case
Roderick> because the lack just seems too bizarre.

Roderick> If not how about adding a pre-defined function for this the user
Roderick> can set gnus-reply-to-function to?

Uhm, I just did a follow-up and came up with both your name and the ding
list via the CC.  Am I missing something in your email?  The only header
that a follow-up won't reply to is the BCC (which is obvious) and it'll
follow-up to the newsgroup when in the news backend group.

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Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Roderick Schertler]

On 20 Mar 1996 00:02:00 -0500, khan@cs.purdue.edu (Muhammad Farrukh Khan) said:
>>
>> When I respond to a mail message I practically always want to respond to
>> everybody who saw it (everybody in the From, To and Cc headers).  I'm
>>
>
> Try f or F.

This isn't appropriate in the general case.  I gateway mailing lists
into actual local newsgroups (rather than reading mail groups in ding)
so that other local users can read them, and maintaining my own
to-address group parameter or the like seems silly when the proper
address is already right there in the To or Cc header.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@gate.net

Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Roderick Schertler]

On 20 Mar 1996 00:02:02 -0500, dhall@illusion.apk.net (d. hall) said:
>
> Uhm, I just did a follow-up and came up with both your name and the ding
> list via the CC.

This is not the behavior I see with a nil gnus-reply-to-function, I get
replies going to the From: address only (it's placed in the To: header,
the cc: header isn't filled in).  Perhaps this is another thing in
gnus-mh.el which needs fixing, I've got gnus-mail-method set to 'mh.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@gate.net

Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:33:05 -0500, Roderick Schertler
>>>>> <roderick@gate.net> said:

  Roderick> When I respond to a mail message I practically always want
  Roderick> to respond to everybody who saw it (everybody in the From,
  Roderick> To and Cc headers).  I'm surprised that September doesn't
  Roderick> have a built-in way to do this.  Did I just miss it?  I
  Roderick> suspect this is the case because the lack just seems too
  Roderick> bizarre.

Gnus has `replies' (which go to the sender only) and `follow-ups'
which go to all recipients of a mail or news article.

I did a follow-up (`F') on your article, and you can clearly see that
all recipients are added to the To and Cc headers of this message.

        kai
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Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Kai Grossjohann]

>>>>> On Wed, 20 Mar 1996 00:31:00 -0500, Roderick Schertler
>>>>> <roderick@gate.net> said:

  Roderick> This isn't appropriate in the general case.  I gateway
  Roderick> mailing lists into actual local newsgroups (rather than
  Roderick> reading mail groups in ding) so that other local users can
  Roderick> read them, and maintaining my own to-address group
  Roderick> parameter or the like seems silly when the proper address
  Roderick> is already right there in the To or Cc header.

Well, this is a special case.  `F' works just fine for `real' news
postings and for `real' mail messages, but for news postings that are
really mail messages, you will of course see some strange behavior.  I
suggest actually setting to-list (or was it to-address?) so that
follow-ups are not posted to the news group.

Or you could just ignore the problem and post the follow-ups to the
newsgroup as well as sending them by mail to all recipients.  (The
latter will be done in all cases.)

        kai
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Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> writes:

> This isn't appropriate in the general case.  I gateway mailing lists
> into actual local newsgroups (rather than reading mail groups in ding)
> so that other local users can read them, and maintaining my own
> to-address group parameter or the like seems silly when the proper
> address is already right there in the To or Cc header.

Set `gnus-mailing-list-groups' to match the gatewayed groups.  Then
`f' will give you the appropriate mail group behavior.

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     would have to wait until some other time."

Re: gnus-reply-to-function for replying to everybody

[Roderick Schertler]

On 20 Mar 1996 05:02:57 -0500, Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> said:
> 
> Gnus has `replies' (which go to the sender only) and `follow-ups'
> which go to all recipients of a mail or news article.

Not yet having made the switch to reading any real mail with Gnus I had
still been thinking of the difference between R and F as that of mail vs
news rather than that of private vs public.  Thanks, everybody, for
helping clear this up for me.

Later, Lars wrote:
>
> Set `gnus-mailing-list-groups' to match the gatewayed groups.  Then
> `f' will give you the appropriate mail group behavior.

Good heavens, man, you've thought of everything.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@gate.net