[TAG] OpenGL hangs my system

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Mon Jun 14 02:11:06 MSD 2004


Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (jra at baylink.com):

> My copy of Mutt actually is configured to *ask* on Reply-to header
> presence whether I want to honor it; on the list I usually do.

Er, perhaps one of my earlier points has not quite gotten across:
Legitimate use of the Reply-To header really has not a lot to do with lists.  
It's a way for poster A (in my hypothetical) to indicate the return
address to use in any direct replies to him, instead of his sender
address.

The appropriate mechanism to indicate whether a mailing list poster
desires direct copies of followups or not is the Mail-Followup-To
header, not Reply-To.  See:  http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

Mutt supports that header.  I believe you'll want to include these in
your .muttrc:

set followup_to = yes
set honor_followup_to = yes

> Apparently I am, of course; my *point* (c'mon, guys; I'm not this
> obscure; you're not this dumb) is that *no one made the point that the
> standing rules had changed when the list moved*.
> 
> Or at least, I never saw them.

Well, there was considerable discussion of the fact that we have not
grabbed and reimplemented Dan Wilder's scripts.  The rest logically
follows from that.

> At the moment, of course, yes it is.  Though, as noted, when I reply to
> you replying to a querent, it means *you* will get 2 copies, and they
> will not get anything.

Er, that is absolutely _not_ true if you're doing reply-to-all.  Which
therefore seems a good idea.






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