Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll]

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

>>>>> "Sudish" == Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

    Sudish> PS: GNUS didn't insert a References: header on your reply,
    Sudish> could you see why?

Let me answer the somewhat obscure question first.  I traced it as far
as tm.  Once I turn off Mime, the References are inserted (as they are
in this followup).

Speaking of bugs, here's another variant of the headers on followup:

To: ding@ifi.uio.no
CC: (Steven L. Baur), The Ding List <ding@ifi.uio.no>

    Steve> (I question the rationale for the practice of Cc'ing by
    Steve> default to the author on followup to a mailing list)

    Sudish> For lots of mailing lists, it is common that the person
    Sudish> who originated the thread is not a member of the list.

I thought this was considered bad etiquette in general.  But if that
has changed, that's O.K.

    Sudish> For e.g., lists related to software--a person asks a
    Sudish> question but isn't interested in other topics being
    Sudish> discussed.  If we discard CC'ed addresses, this person
    Sudish> will lose all second and higher level messages in the
    Sudish> ensuing discussion.  If we don't respect even the To:
    Sudish> header, people will get no replies whatsoever.  I pray we
    Sudish> don't try to enforce such a model.

O.K.  It's enough for me to know there are passionate supporters for
this feature.  Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you
accept ...

    Sudish> Duplicate elimination is a simple process with most
    Sudish> filters.

And the simplest approach (as with procmail) has its drawbacks.  What
confuses me greatly is mistaking the private copy of the public
version (either to a mailing list or on Usenet), as private e-mail.
I'll get over it.

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

    Sudish> It doesn't enter the picture for mailgroups.

Why shouldn't it?  Besides, if you base the behavior on a variable,
won't it be easier to get variant behavior out of the (local)
variables of the Score file, or off the group hook?

Regards,
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur