On 2018-02-05 at 09:32, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 05 Feb 2018 at 08:40:27 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-02-05 at 08:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> You should set up a "Mail-Followup-To:" for that. This is >>> entirely your problem. >> >> That does seem to be the trend and position of the world, >> especially in recent years, but I disagree as a matter of >> philosophy. >> >> A mailing list whose subscribers can post to it is a discussion >> forum. >> >> Replies to a message which was posted to a discussion forum should, >> by default, go back to that forum. If the poster wants the replies >> to go somewhere else, it is that poster's responsibility to >> indicate this fact, whether by message headers, signature comments, >> explicit statements in the body of the message, or some other >> means. >> >> This is just as true of offline fora as of online ones. >> >> Usenet got this right, IMO, and so did all the mailing lists I >> remember participating in back before Web fora became a >> vaguely-viable thing. I consider it a sad thing that the precedent >> established there seems to have been abandoned since that time. > > If it really worries you, the answer might be ~/.procmailrc and Unfortunately, I do not have my mail system set up such that mail passes through a local procmail instance before it reaches me. My mail client pulls mail directly from the remote server. I am theoretically interested in the possibility of setting things up to change that, but it's very much a back-burner low-priority interest, which has never risen to the level of even figuring out how to start on the actual project. > :0 Wh: $HOME/msgid.lock > | formail -D 199999 $HOME/msgid.cache > > I used it for years. I don't parse this well enough to understand what it would do, and I don't know where to find a procmail reference which would let me read up on it easily enough to understand quickly. Could you clarify? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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