Re: Following up to CC'ED news articles

[Russ Allbery <eagle@cyclone.stanford.edu>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjoh@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> it often happens that I get a mail which is actually a CC of a news
> article.  AFAIK, hitting `F' in my mail group sends a mail to the sender
> but doesn't post the article in the news groups.  Is there a way that my
> reply could be automatically mailed and posted?

This would require some reliable way of determining when a mail message
has also been posted.  Unfortunately, there isn't one.  (Some programs
think that the presence of a Newsgroups header indicates the message has
been posted, but some news readers also include that header in all mailed
replies regardless of whether they're also posted.)

One suggestion that I had that I believe is on the Red to-do list is a
keystroke that will check if there is a news article with the same message
ID as the current mail message.  That should let you catch most of them.

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Russ Allbery (rra@cs.stanford.edu)      <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>