Re: gnus - setting Mail-Followup-To header

[Uday Reddy]

On 8/6/2010 8:19 AM, Gary wrote:

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

I don't disagree that newsgroups are better for this kind of discussion.

But, when the newsgroup is being used as a front-end to a mailing list, I 
prefer to receive a personal copy of any responses so that I know what is being 
discussed.  Now, gmane doesn't know that I want a personal copy and you don't. 
 So, it can't make a uniform decision about putting a Mail-Followup-To header.

Cheers,
Uday