From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3958 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 23:20:59 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Sender: steve@miranova.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144773 28086 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sudish Joseph 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 BAA16510 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 01:06:06 -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 08:21:13 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA16181; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:21:03 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: Sudish Joseph's message of 13 Nov 1995 20:43:39 -0800 Original-Lines: 54 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.12 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3958 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3958 >>>>> "Sudish" == Sudish Joseph 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 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