From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28260 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian May Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Reply in mailing lists Date: 16 Dec 1999 12:46:30 +1100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165140 28954 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:52:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:52:20 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A5ED051F for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:17:49 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB10328; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:17:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:17:22 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA13610 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 02:17:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.7]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EBAD051E for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 03:16:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from bam@localhost) by silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA24317; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 12:46:30 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: silas-2.cc.monash.edu.au: bam set sender to bmay@csse.monash.edu.au using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Home-Page: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~bmay/ In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:47:04 +0100" Original-Lines: 62 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28260 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28260 >>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen writes: Per> Brian May writes: >> I think the To field will prevent the news message from being >> posted (unless I am mistaken). Per> You are mistaken. I am...? I will take your word for it ;-) I assume then that if Gnus sees a "newsgroup" header, it will always post it? Similarly, if Gnus sees a "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" header, it will always post it (independently of if it mails it or not). >> IMHO, "mail-copies-to" should override the setting for >> "to-address", but would it? Per> Try it. Amazing, it worked! Assuming my test wasn't flawed... (I don't think it was). So now I can summarize for mailing lists (and I assume the same holds for all newsgroups) that have the "to-address" set: narrow reply - reply only to author - this is obvious wide reply - reply to everyone specified in original message (this may/may not include the mailing list). - except if original mail contains "mail-copies-to: never"[1], in which case the original author will not get a separate copy. Not sure about other people. followup - same thing as "wide reply" for mailing lists where "to-address" is not set. Otherwise... - reply to "to-address" only. - except if "mail-copies-to: always" was set, in which case a CC is sent to the author. - if you want to manually force replying to the original author, then pushing C-c C-t (did I get that correct?) will add him/her to the "to" field. So, me thinks it is a pity that the wide reply wont always include the address of the mailing list, but everything else seems rather sane and straight forward. Note: [1] I can't remember if this is never or nobody. Please substitute for correct value, and don't take my version as being up-to-date and correct. -- Brian May