On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 05:43:22PM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote:
> The `lists' command specifies the mailing lists to which you are subscribed.
> Since the purpose of the mail-followup-to field is to affect a group reply,
> there is no reason to put your own email address in there since you are
> already a member of the list (which is included in m-f-t).
I can understand how this makes sense if the only people in the To:/Cc: list
are several lists, but what if it contains people that also belong to the list?
If I wanted to send out an article that would only have people responding to
the list and not to me directly, I would use the 'L'ist reply function.
I use the 'g'roup reply function to email the people concerned in the thread
as well as the list itself. I realize some people hate this, but another large
group of people like it. In this case, it all works perfectly except that
when people with mail clients which respect Mail-FollowUp-To: respond to me,
I don't get an email directed at me from them, but all the others on the list
do. To me, this is wrong.
Either Mail-FollowUp-To: should _only_ include the list, or it should include
everybody which includes me. Because the first isn't always possible (we have
no way of knowing which people are actually in which list) I think the second
makes more sense.
This has the greatest effect in a mailing list that is often behind schedule,
such that any person responding to me on a thread which I am concerned, does
not have their article get to me until the list catches up, during which time
everybody else (who doesn't use mutt) is able to communicate out of sync with
the list.
Of course you can tell me I'm wrong... in which case I'll have to sit here
with my hands crossed and then email the other person complaining about "my
headers" that they are wrong.... :-)
mark
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