From: J.B. Moreno (planb@newsreaders.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 14:51:31 CDT
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
(I don't think this is relevant to the list any more, so I'm
cross-posting it to a couple of relevant newsgroups [c.m.mutt because
that's what Clive was using, c.s.misc because it seems the appropriate
group otherwise], and will only be continuing discussion there).
> at 02:36 PM, "J.B. Moreno" <planb@newsreaders.com> said:
[How does the client know it's responding to a list?]
> >Configuration.
>
> >As I said above, the mailing list manager allows me to customize how
> >"Reply" is handled.
>
> You have a faulty assumption: that the subscriber knows how the
> messages from the list will be sent. I have subscribed to a number of
> mailing lists, and they invariably reconfigure without telling the
> subscribers.
Not at all -- the client should allow more than one method of deciding
whether a message should be treated as part of a particular list. One
of the test should be the presence of the submission address in the
To/Cc headers, which will almost always work. If that's changed the
user needs to take notice of it in one way or another anyway, so it's
not a problem keeping track of it.
> When that happens, all of the client configuration that you are
> talking about breaks badly and has to be redone. Yes, there is
> usually a temporary hack, but that is quite far from having "a mail
> reader that is aware of whether or not a message came from a mailing
> list."
Again, the worst thing that can happen is the submission address
changes, at which time the user simply updates that and is done. He
may have to update other things (i.e. the filters that put the messages
in a particular folder), but that can be a separate issue (and often
is).
Clive was using Mutt when he did his "group" reply, I suggest that he
takes a look at these two articles:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=RoaO7.12148%24Qm6.1543295%40zwoll1.
home.nl&output=gplain>
and
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=slrn9ua3mv.6am.tim%40vegeta.ath.cx
&output=gplain>
(and possibly the current followups to that in comp.mail.mutt).
-- J.B. Moreno