Re: gnus - setting Mail-Followup-To header

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:19:21 +0200 Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> wrote: 

G> Uday S Reddy wrote:
>> On 8/4/2010 2:12 PM, Gary wrote:
>>> As you might see, I read and post to this list, among others, via the
>>> gmane mail2news/news2mail gateway. That is, when I post, I am doing so
>>> in a manner that gnus thinks I am posting to a newsgroup, not a mailing
>>> list, and so doesn't set Mail-Followup-To. Is it possible, either by
>>> config or code, to make it do so?
>> 
>> I am not sure what the purpose is.  Is this so that, when you post to
>> the newsgroup and somebody replies, you don't want to get a personal
>> copy of the response?  How can gmane know that you don't want a personal
>> copy?

G> Not sure what you mean. Gmane doesn't send email. 

It does.

G> Mail-Followup-To doesn't stop users of gmane's nntp interface also
G> replying by email of course, but people using newsreaders don't tend
G> to do so, because a reply/followup will always go back to the
G> newsgroup/list unless otherwise specified. Contrast this with most
G> MUA users use of "Reply to all" in order to get their responses to
G> the list and not (only) the original sender and you will understand
G> why I think newsreaders are simply better for this kind of thing
G> (reading and replying to mass distributed messages).

I think what you're looking for is the gmane.discuss newsgroup.  Ask
there; some of the readers are Gnus users and GMane admins so they will
probably be able to explain what you have to do and even make changes to
GMane, if necessary, to make it happen on their side.

Ted