Guy Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I been away from the list for a while and beed reading the list again
> for the last few days. I could not help but noticing pepoel reply
> to mails to the sender _and_ to the list, and i ask you why ?
> In mutt you press the "L" for replying only to the list, so is that
> so hard to do that instead of typing the "g" for global reply ?
> I'm quite sure pine, elm, or any other mailer have a group reply only
> botton/function. So why don't use that ?
How does mutt know what is list and what is a person?
I am not aware of any function like that in gnus - my mail/news
reader of choice. This reply is sent with F - "wide reply", and
Guys personal email has been edited out by hand as a courtesy,
just this one time.
This has been discussed here several times. Ira (hello?) raised the
question in the past, IIRC. The issue is wider than one mailing list +
individual member addresses. Some individual addresses might belong to
people who are not on the list. A message can be cross-posted to
several lists. I am not going to spend time determining that and
editing the recipients' list by hand every time.
There are solutions though. The simplest for everybody running linux
(or UNIX, am I missing a relevant OS?) is given in "man procmailex":
put
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
| formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
in ~/.procmailrc. I *never* get a duplicate - cross-post at will! Some
mail readers (gnus among them) offer their own ways to deal with
duplicates, but procmail offers a solution independent of your choice
of mailer.
Another solution depends on the list admin(s): set up Reply-To to be
linux-il. Then hitting reply (not "wide reply" or "reply to all")
will do the right thing, except in those cases when you do want to
cross-post. If I am not mistaken, egroups (a.k.a. hackers-il) has
this feature.
I hope this answers the question "why", and I hope the suggestions are
helpful.
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | Comgates Ltd. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time."
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