From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3956 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sudish Joseph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll] Date: 13 Nov 1995 23:43:39 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Sender: joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144772 28084 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA16094 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 22:29:42 -0800 Original-Received: from news.cis.ohio-state.edu (news.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.8.50]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 14 Nov 1995 05:43:56 +0100 Original-Received: from bank.cis.ohio-state.edu (bank.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.16.2]) by news.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA22282; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:43:43 -0500 Original-Received: (joseph@localhost) by bank.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.6.7/8.6.4) id XAA05802; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 23:43:40 -0500 Original-To: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur), The Ding List X-Mailer: VM 5.95 (beta), GNU Emacs 19.28.1 In-Reply-To: steve@miranova.com's message of 13 Nov 1995 16:56:18 -0800 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3956 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3956 Steven L Baur writes: > I'm finding the practice of cc'ing the original author along with > the mailing list increasingly irritating. With Usenet and > sprintlink (our basic upstream feed) it's useful, since news is > frequently lost. But with a mailing list, it just means getting two > (almost, but not quite, identical) copies of the same message. > Please enlighten me what this practice is useful for. I'm not so > biased at this point I can't change my mind. For lots of mailing lists, it is common that the person who originated the thread is not a member of the list. For e.g., lists related to software--a person asks a question but isn't interested in other topics being discussed. If we discard CC'ed addresses, this person will lose all second and higher level messages in the ensuing discussion. If we don't respect even the To: header, people will get no replies whatsoever. I pray we don't try to enforce such a model. Duplicate elimination is a simple process with most filters. > How will gnus-auto-mail-to-author relate? It doesn't enter the picture for mailgroups. -Sudish PS: GNUS didn't insert a References: header on your reply, could you see why?