Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll]

[Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Steven L Baur writes:
>>>>>> "Sudish" == Sudish Joseph <joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
Sudish> Duplicate elimination is a simple process with most
Sudish> filters.

> And the simplest approach (as with procmail) has its drawbacks.  What
> confuses me greatly is mistaking the private copy of the public
> version (either to a mailing list or on Usenet), as private e-mail.
> I'll get over it.

There's no such thing as a "private/public" copy of duplicated email.
Each copy is the same as the other, barring Received: and any other
headers added in-transit.  Both copies contain exactly the same
information, and have the same message-id.  This is not true of
newsgroups and mailed copies of postings.

Steve> How will gnus-auto-mail-to-author relate?
Sudish> It doesn't enter the picture for mailgroups.

> Why shouldn't it?  Besides, if you base the behavior on a variable,
> won't it be easier to get variant behavior out of the (local)
> variables of the Score file, or off the group hook?

gnus-followup-to-function exists for this very purpose.  

-Sudish