Re: No Followup-To header defaults

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Aug 29 2005, Haines Brown wrote:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc> writes:
[...]
>> Gnus doesn't know that groups x and y exist.  Maybe in your previous
>> setup, Gnus knew about the groups x and y (IIRC unsubscrkilledibed

Oops, s/unsubscrkilledibed/unsubscribed and killed/

>> groups are also considered here).
>
> I had assumed that when I followed up to a message, the header of my
> reply would read the Newsgroups: line of the message to which I am
> responding. 

Correct.

> Your answer implies that this not so, and the behavior about which
> I'm complaining is normal.
>
> You seem to imply that in my previous setup gnus didn't read the
> Newsgroups: line, 

No, that's not what I said.

> but would somehow otherwise know of these groups, even if I had
> never subscribed to them or killed them.

On sending, several checks are done.  One test is to check if the
newsgroups exists (I'm not sure about the details, sorry), see the
variable `message-syntax-checks'.

Maybe you had disabled the check `existing-newsgroups' in
`message-syntax-checks'?  Or you can disable it there, if the prompt
annoys you.

> For example, I'm involved in a discussion on a newsgroup, but the OP
> had distributed his message to several groups, including
> uk.politics.misc. When I follow up to up his messages, the
> uk.politics.misc group in my old setup would appear automatically in
> the "Newsgroups:" line of my outgoing header.

Unless there's a Followup-To header, all groups from the Newsgroups
line should also appear in when following up.

> In my old setup, ~/News contained a set of files corresponding to the
> groups to which I subscribed. For example, linux.debian.user.SCORE,
[...]

(This is completely irrelevant for the current issue.)

Bye, Reiner.
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