Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll]

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

I'm not very happy with followup right now, and I'm including a
sample of what I've seen when doing it.  (Cut & pasted after hitting
``f'' on Sudish's message).

To: ding@ifi.uio.no
CC: The Ding list <ding@ifi.uio.no>

I'm finding the practice of cc'ing the original author along with the
mailing list increasingly irritating.  With Usenet and sprintlink (our
basic upstream feed) it's useful, since news is frequently lost.  But
with a mailing list, it just means getting two (almost, but not quite,
identical) copies of the same message.  Please enlighten me what this
practice is useful for.  I'm not so biased at this point I can't
change my mind.

> a) Add the original author to the CC list.  So we have to-address in
>    the To header, and the original author in the CC header.

> b) Add both to-address and original author to To: header.

Do it the Gnus way.  Do code for both and select by a user
configurable variable.  IMHO, you should also allow for a followup
style of just using the to-address.

How will gnus-auto-mail-to-author relate?

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steve@miranova.com baur