From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21517 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Hey kids, it's dumb question time... Date: 25 Feb 1999 02:50:52 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159606 23357 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:20:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA29122 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 05:52:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAB25706; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:51:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:51:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA14696 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:51:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.64.12.23]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA29112 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 05:51:22 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 1888 invoked by uid 50); 25 Feb 1999 10:50:52 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "22 Feb 1999 19:34:32 -0500" Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.66/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21517 Stainless Steel Rat writes: > You don't. 'Courtesy copies' are extremely *UN*courteous; most people > hate them. If you absolutely must both post and mail a copy of a > message, manually insert a 'To' header, and only do so after checking to > see if that the 'Mail-Copies-To' header of the original does not say > 'none' (mine say 'none'). Um, Rat, some of us gate stuff like postmaster and support mail to internal newsgroups to deal with it more easily (and have an automatic archive). When responding to such messages, the feature commonly called "courtesy copies" is mandatory if one wants the person sending the original message to actually see the response. I agree with you in the general case, but there's a good use for this feature in some circumstances. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)