Re: cc'ing (was Re: Mozilla goes GTK+ instead of Qt)
--On Tue, Nov 3, 1998 11:31 pm +1100 "Tyson Dowd" <trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 03-Nov-1998, Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
>> I have said and continue to say taht the easy way to do this is to tell
your
>> MUA to add the simple header Mail-Followup-To:... Any MUA that doesn't
>> honor this header is broken.
>
> Could you explain this further? I didn't exactly understand what this
> is supposed to do when you mentioned it in your other mail.
Yup.
Mail-Followup-To: is supposed to indicate the addresses that 'follow-ups'
should be sent to, as opposed to replies. The terminology is that used in
many newreaders - a 'reply' is to the author, and a 'follow-up' is to the
list.
Of course, it is the case that few mailers support Mail-Followup-To (or is
there an 's'? I'm afraid I forget).
It is certainly the case that it is a neater system where Reply-To and
Mail-Followup-To are orthogonal. There really is a case for reply-to -
believe us, if you haven't experienced it! If I send this email via my ISP
(a topologically obscure route), it will be From: jules@jellybean.co.uk,
since they don't mind. OTOH, if I send it via my university, it will be
From: jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk - since mail-servers here require that. Which
seems not unreasonable, to me. But the same mail-servers would be happy
enough to accept a Reply-To, should I choose to direct my mail back to
jellybean.co.uk (or, indeed, jules@debian.org).
In fact, all these addresses are equivalent, and are directed to my
university account. But that's my choice...
Anyway, the bottom line is that debian policy is for cc:es to be trimmed.
If this bothers you, discuss it on -policy, I suppose.
Doesn't seem all that important to me. If your mailer supports custom
headers (as most do) and CC:es annoy you, I suggest you set the
mail-followup-to, which will cut down the volume somewhat. (Hey, in a few
months, I will tell everyone that they should switch to balsa, which is
going to be cool, and is based on mutt. But currently it's alpha...)
Jules
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