Re: Mail-Followup-To in newsgroups

[Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at> writes:
>
>> Today, Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>> I read ding as a newsgroup from news.gnus.org.  When I followup, Gnus
>>> ignores the MFT, and sends the reply to just the newsgroup gnus.ding.
>>> 
>>> This is probably not the right thing.  What should it do about MFT in
>>> a newsgroup?
>>
>> Nothing, imho. MFT pertains to mail only, as the name suggests.
>
> But that solve doesn't solve the problem.  Some people read a list as
> mail and some as a newsgroup -- so you can't say for sure if an article
> is really mail or news.

GMANE should probably convert MFT to at real FT if the content point
to lists on GMANE and those list are different from the lists it was
posted to.

I.e. it is gateway problem, not a Gnus problem.

Which means the Gnus author can relax and leave the problem to the
GMANE author.