Re: List replies (was Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.)

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Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shalehperry@attbi.com> writes:

> On Monday 23 September 2002 08:37, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> >
> > There are at least two major factions of thought on how a mailing list
> > should be set up.  One suggests that lists should munge their headers so
> > responses are forced to the list and the other suggests that MUAs should
> > be updated.  Personally I prefer the later and have previously notified
> > the Sylpheed author of it's deficiency in this regard.  I even provided a
> > patch to provide list reply functionality.  Unfortunately, based on the
> > configuration of the Sylpheed list, the author appears to favor list
> > munging and has not included the patch.
> 
> Or you go the kmail route.  Each of my mailing lists go to a folder.  The 
> folder has an option 'this folder contains a mailing list' and I set the 
> mailing lists address.  Then i hit list-reply and it uses that address and 
> only that address when it sends the mail.  Simple, elegant and 100% avoids 
> the wars over headers.


I've done something similar with gnus/emacs, which lets you set custom
headers on a per-folder basis. I have set things up so that messages
sent from the debian-user folder always have a to: field of
debian-user@lists.debian.org and a Mail-Followup-To: field with the
same.

The only drawback I've found is that hittint 'R' to reply to the sender
instead of the mailing list no longer works and I have to manually
modify the headers... if anyone knows how to fix this, I would
appreciate that they share the information :-)