From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/54814 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Steven E. Harris" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Confusion over to-list v. to-address Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:10:27 -0800 Organization: SEH Labs Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068791269 10014 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 06:27:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 06:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M3352@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Nov 14 07:27:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKXQn-0002DM-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 07:27:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AKXPc-0008HB-00; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:26:32 -0600 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1AK0PE-0000xP-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:11:56 -0600 Original-Received: from dfw-gate2.raytheon.com (dfw-gate2.raytheon.com [199.46.199.231]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB3A3A004F for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:11:55 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ds02e00.directory.ray.com (ds02e00.directory.ray.com [147.25.130.245]) by dfw-gate2.raytheon.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hACJBsPm005158 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:11:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ds02e00.directory.ray.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ds02e00.directory.ray.com (8.12.10/8.12.1) with ESMTP id hACJBq9F004389 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:11:52 GMT Original-Received: Received: from L75001820.sdo.us.ray.com ([192.27.58.82]) by ds02e00.directory.ray.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hACJBkoT004322 sender seharris@raytheon.com for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 19:11:47 GMT Original-Received: from sharr by L75001820.sdo.us.ray.com with local (Exim 4.24) id HO96LF-000AW8-8O for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:10:27 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, cygwin32) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54814 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:54814 [I first posted this to gnu.emacs.gnus, then realized I might stir up a better response here.] I've been canceling several of my mailing list subscriptions and moving over to the gmane equivalents. Today, for example, I realized that the ding list is available as gmane.emacs.gnus.general. After years of using Gnus, I'm still confused over the to-list and to-address group parameters. If I subscribe to a gmane newsgroup and want to participate as though it was a mailing list, should I set to-list or to-address? The Info section doesn't make it clear. For to-list, it says: If this variable is set, `gnus-mailing-list-mode' is turned on when entering summary buffer. That sounds good. But to-address also sounds appropriate: Let's say there's a group on the server that is called `fa.4ad-l'. This is a real newsgroup, but the server has gotten the articles from a mail-to-news gateway. Posting directly to this group is therefore impossible--you have to send mail to the mailing list address instead. There's no substitute for experimentation. With to-list, only fresh postings go to the right address. All other replies or follow-ups go only to the original author. With to-address, replies and follow-ups work mostly as expected, though still different from my "real" mailing list groups. For the latter, follow-ups get addressed first to the author and are copied to the list. I usually change this around manually to avoid copying the author who is obviously subscribed as well. I also just noticed the "subscribed" variable. Is that part of the solution? Please advise. -- Steven E. Harris :: seh@panix.com