Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "reply all" etiquette: reply-all vs. reply'ing to list

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 07:03:10PM -0500, John Meinel wrote:
> >Actually that's the single *worst* result I have ever
> >encountered. Then you get one personal copy, and *no* list copies, so
> >no copy winds up in the list folder and there's not a damn thing you
> >can do about it (you receive no mails which contain enough information
> >to file them properly). Thread history is completely messed up.
> >
> >
> Actually, I have mine set to Yes, and I don't seem to have the 
> catastrophic disaster that you seem to state.
> 
> My mailer (Thunderbird) seems to handle things coming into my inbox, and 
> then me manually moving it into the list folder.

I do not have a spare gnome to manually file all my mail.

> Also, if someone does "reply-all" then there still would be a 
> 'gnu-arch-users' in the To or CC fields.
> 
> I use the current procmail filter:
> :0
> * ^(To|Cc).*gnu-arch-users
> lists/gnu-arch-users

Filtering based on the inaccurate To/Cc fields is just wrong.

> Now, I still would prefer if gau set itself in the Reply-To so that the 
> default reply goes to list.

Reply-To mangling considered harmful.

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