Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 31 Aug 2016 at 15:04:26 -0500, David Wright wrote:

> On Wed 31 Aug 2016 at 00:34:47 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> > 
> > Additionally, I have learned a little more about mutt's behaviour.
> > 
> >  <list-reply> (default: L)
> > 
> >     Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses which
> >     match the regular expressions given by the lists or subscribe commands, but
> >     also honor any Mail-Followup-To header(s) if the $honor_followup_to
> >     configuration variable is set. In addition, the List-Post header field is
> >     examined for mailto: URLs specifying a mailing list address. Using this
> >     when replying to messages posted to mailing lists helps avoid duplicate
> >     copies being sent to the author of the message you are replying to.
> > 
> > Your mail had a Mail-Followup-To header to debian-user and Lisi Reisz. I
> > think it was this rather than the Cc that got me a telling off.
> 
> You got there a lot faster than I did. Presumably you don't/didn't
> have any special treatment of followup_to and honor_followup_to in
> your .muttrc file.

I decided many years ago that 'set followup_to=yes' didn't do anything
for me. What I hadn't realised is that the combination of the default
honor_followup_to and pressing 'L' could lead to a CC'ing-by-proxy chain
of events.