On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 08:40:27 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-02-05 at 08:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2018-02-05 01:53:02 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > >> On 05/02/18 01:44, Nicolas George wrote: > > >>> Done this once, but I cannot promise I will think of it later. > >>> Document your preference in your mail mail header, the standard > >>> way, so that it is automatic and works for everybody, just like I > >>> did. Too bad the list software is not properly configured to do > >>> that automatically. > >> > >> My preference is for any personal replies addressed to me to go to > >> me, and I'd use the Reply-to header (as intended) if I needed it to > >> go somewhere else. But replies to the list should go to the list > >> (only) (unless otherwise requested), as per list policy. > > > > You should set up a "Mail-Followup-To:" for that. This is entirely > > your problem. > > That does seem to be the trend and position of the world, especially in > recent years, but I disagree as a matter of philosophy. > > A mailing list whose subscribers can post to it is a discussion forum. > > Replies to a message which was posted to a discussion forum should, by > default, go back to that forum. If the poster wants the replies to go > somewhere else, it is that poster's responsibility to indicate this > fact, whether by message headers, signature comments, explicit > statements in the body of the message, or some other means. > > This is just as true of offline fora as of online ones. > > Usenet got this right, IMO, and so did all the mailing lists I remember > participating in back before Web fora became a vaguely-viable thing. I > consider it a sad thing that the precedent established there seems to > have been abandoned since that time.
If it really worries you, the answer might be ~/.procmailrc and :0 Wh: $HOME/msgid.lock | formail -D 199999 $HOME/msgid.cache I used it for years. Cheers, David.
