From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3950 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 19:07:30 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Sender: joseph@cis.ohio-state.edu Message-ID: References: <199511132349.AAA18160@ssv4.dina.kvl.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144766 28073 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:12:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sudish Joseph 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 RAA14382 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 17:03:47 -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 01:07:45 +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 TAA08717; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 19:07:35 -0500 Original-Received: (joseph@localhost) by bank.cis.ohio-state.edu (8.6.7/8.6.4) id TAA22892; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 19:07:31 -0500 Original-To: Per Abrahamsen , The Ding List X-Mailer: VM 5.95 (beta), GNU Emacs 19.28.1 In-Reply-To: Per Abrahamsen's message of Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:49:06 +0100 Original-Lines: 22 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3950 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3950 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