Mark Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I KNOW what the documented behaviour for mutt is. What I was
> explaining was why I always use 'g'roup reply instead of 'L'ist reply.
I have also more-or-less abandoned the List-Reply function within Mutt.
I participate in a few mailing lists which mostly consist of pleas for
help from all over. Most of the users posting are not subscribed to the
list; they merely want help from the list members. In the old days, I
used to believe that one should always subscribe to a list before
posting to it, but I no longer believe that; the number of lists is
simply too staggering, to expect such behavior from most people.
At any rate, I used to use List-Reply for everything. But what I found
was that my well-intentioned posts were reaching the subscribed list
members just fine... but those people didn't really need to see the
post; it was mostly intended for the original poster, who received
nothing from me.
So now I use Group-Reply for everything. On lists like this one, where
nearly everyone uses Mutt, and Mail-Followup-To headers can be trusted,
it works quite well. On most other lists, I either send a reply to
everyone who needs it, or send an occasional duplicate to a list
subscriber. And no one complains.
> 'L'ist reply doesn't do what I want when I want to reply to a list.
It actually took me quite a while to realize why people weren't seeing
my replies. Now that I think on it, List-Reply doesn't seem as useful
as I had once thought.
> I want a SMART 'L'ist reply which generates it the most perfectly it
> can in the significant majority of the cases.
>
> Is that too much to ask? :-)
There's no way for Mutt to know who subscribes or doesn't subscribe to a
list. The best solution is the MFT header, but it only works well on a
list like this one, where everyone uses it. I can't think of an
intelligent solution; can you?
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