From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44161 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Handling mailing lists Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 12:01:29 -0500 Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid? Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20020404113907.A12214@fr.thalesgroup.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017939796 30785 127.0.0.1 (4 Apr 2002 17:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tAdo-00080Q-00 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:03:16 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16tAcW-0005Qy-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:01:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:02:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA14927 for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:01:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 14157 invoked by alias); 4 Apr 2002 17:01:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14152 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2002 17:01:35 -0000 Original-Received: from multivac.student.cwru.edu (HELO multivac.cwru.edu) (qmailr@129.22.96.25) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Apr 2002 17:01:35 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6738 invoked by uid 500); 4 Apr 2002 17:01:52 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <20020404113907.A12214@fr.thalesgroup.com> =?iso-8859-1?q?(J=E9r=F4me?= Marant's message of "Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:39:07 +0200") Mail-Copies-To: nobody Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/20.7 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44161 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44161 J=E9r=F4me Marant wrote: > Currently, if you want to handle mailing lists as speficic recipients, > i.e. make as if a reply-to contained the mailing list address in mails > you receive from that list, you have to edit to-address and to-list > variables in group parameters. to-address is sufficient. > However I've seen in other MUA more practical ways of implementing > this: a list contains all mailing list addresses you subscribed to > and whenever you reply to a mail, the MUA try to find one of > these addresses within To: or Cc: and if so, it fills the To: field > of your reply with the mailing list address. I think the way to do this would be: if Mail-Followup-T is set in the original message use it else build a list of recipient addresses from the original message that match message-subscribed-*; if the list is not empty use it as the recipient list for the response else use the current behavior I guess this could be wedged into message-get-reply-headers. I'm not sure it would be a good idea, though: a thread crossposted to multiple lists will get silently limited to just whichever list(s) you happen to be subscribed to. (to-address is just as bad (or worse) in this way.) But you'd still have to edit group parameters to set to-list for new messages, so I don't see how this saves you any work. The Right Way is for all MUAs to support MFT. Effort spent on kluges to work around the lack of MFT could instead be spent working toward the real solution, by promoting MFT to MUA maintainers and the other posters on lists you're subscribed to. paul