From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3952 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll] Date: 13 Nov 1995 16:56:18 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144768 28075 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id RAA14570 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:48:34 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 01:56:32 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA14310; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:56:21 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: Sudish Joseph's message of 13 Nov 1995 14:51:40 -0800 Original-Lines: 28 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.12 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3952 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3952 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 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? -- steve@miranova.com baur