From: Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 06:25:03 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> If the article does not contain a Mail-Copies-To header, it SHOULD be
> treated as if it contained "Mail-Copies-To: never" unless the poster
> indicated a different preference via some other means (such as a request
> in the body of the message for an e-mailed copy).
Would "the message was posted to a newsgroup where it is socially
acceptable to post messages without reading the group" count as a
indication of a different preference?
Some (non-USENET) newsgroups exists for the purpose of reporting bugs,
the people reporting the bugs are not obliged to read the group. In
such a group I'd typically CC followups to the original poster, unless
the poster explicitly indicated CC's were unwanted.