From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 13:32:23 CDT
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 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?
It would to me.
> Some (non-USENET) newsgroups exists for the purpose of reporting bugs,
> the people reporting the bugs are not obliged to read the group.
Yup. I participate in a whole bunch of those.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>