Re: About to-addresses and followup [poll]

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

Per Abrahamsen writes:
> I believe sgnus have (or will have) a to-list parameter which is only
> used on new posts (i.e. when you type `a') and not on followups.  The
> default followup algorithm will send to both the list and the author
> if there is no to-address on the list.  The author in the To: header
> and the list in the CC: header, as in this message.

I agree with you that it's much better to have the list address in the
CC: field than in the To: field (the headers on this message look a
tad ugly :-).  But it seems redundant to have both a to-address and a
to-list parameter.  We can achieve the same functionality by simply
ignoring to-address on followups, limiting its scope to just new
posts.

Alternatively, to avoid the Pineism I mentioned in another message, we
might retain the current meaning of to-address (ie., use it on
followups) and prompt the user if we detect a followup to a mail that
didn't have (mail-strip-quoted-names to-address) in it's original
headers ("This message wasn't send to" to-address ", should we Cc that
address?").  This would cover all possibilities, I think?

-Sudish