From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13896 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail-Followup-To Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:25:39 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199802102125.QAA08139@cypress.math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153179 11728 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:32:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10655 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 13:32:20 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05987 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:29:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAN10351; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:05:21 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:27:59 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA23082 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:27:51 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 663 invoked by uid 504); 10 Feb 1998 21:27:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 660 invoked from network); 10 Feb 1998 21:27:47 -0000 Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@130.207.146.50) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 10 Feb 1998 21:27:47 -0000 Original-Received: from cypress.math.gatech.edu (root@cypress.math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.13]) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA10157 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:25:42 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from cypress.math.gatech.edu (coleman@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA08139 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:25:40 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen of "10 Feb 1998 22:13:35 +0100." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13896 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13896 > > Yes, RFC 822 did not make a distinction between reply-to-author and > > reply-to-list. These are aspects of the mail client, not the message > > format. To a well-written MUA, these headers are redundant; the client > > already makes the appropriate distinction. A badly written MUA, one that > > does not make the distinction, is not going to honor these headers. > > Yup. But there are useful things that can be done with these > headers. For instance -- on mailing lists where everyone that posts > is assumed to be subscribed (like this one), the listserv could add a > "Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org" header. It can also be used by the > sender as a way to signal "I am subscribed to the list; don't Cc me or > anybody else". I think the proposal specifically says that mailing list managers should NOT add this header. A better scenario is that Gnus have a variable such as mailing-list-addresses. When you send a message, it compares the address to all the addresses in this list, and adds the "Mail-Followup-To" header if there is a match. That way, group replies (assuming mail client that is replying understands this header) would go back to the mailing list. -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu