Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

[Tiago Saboga <tiagosaboga@gmail.com>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

> On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote:
>
>> I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to
>> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use
>> fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of
>> procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing
>> list has its own inbox. Gnus takes messages there and stores them in its
>> nnml backend. Now I would like gnus to know that whenever I reply to any
>> debian list, it is to send my reply only to the list, except if
>> explicitly told otherwise (it should also do the right thing if it finds
>> mail-followup-to and reply-to headers, and I don't even know what is the
>> right thing in that case).
>
> You can achieve this using group parameters, e.g. I have the following
> parameters for this list:
>
> ((to-address . "debian-user@lists.debian.org")
>  (to-list . "debian-user@lists.debian.org")
>  (subscribed . t))
>
> This ensures that follow-ups and new posts go the list and
> Mail-Followup-To is set.  See (Info "(gnus) Group Parameters") for more
> information.  Note that you should reply with follow-up (bound to "F")
> and not reply-all (bound to "S W") if you want to reply to the list
> only.

Thanks to everyone who answered. It's what I am doing right now for this
list (via customization, as I am not yet comfortable with all gnus
variables), but I am subscribed to more than 10 debian lists and I would
not like to do this manual configuration for each of them. How do I say
to gnus: "Everytime I reply to a debian list, I want my message to go
only to the list, except if I tell you otherwise"?


Tiago.