[Gnu-arch-users] Re: "reply all" etiquette: reply-all vs. reply'ing to list

[Nikolai Weibull]

* Miles Bader <address@hidden> [Sep 28, 2004 09:50]:
> > > You (and jblack) should add a "Mail-Followup-To:" header, which
> > > many mailers will respect when doing "reply-to-all".  E.g.:

> > >    Mail-Followup-To: address@hidden

> > I thought that Mail-Followup-To wasn't part of any "standard" yet

> It's not as far as I know, but it's widely implemented, so it's pretty
> much a de-facto standard these days, especially among the more clueful
> MUAs out there like Gnus and Mutt (which I'm sure we all use :-).

Yep.  Btw, guess where this mail wound up?  That's right, straight in my
 >-box, not in =lists.gnu-arch-users ;-).


> > and was frowned upon by many.

> I think this is not true.  It's no doubt frowned upon by _some_, but
> largely it seems to be well-liked by the clueful.

OK.

> > Why does this list seem to add tabs in the subject line?  I'm
> > guessing this is due to some kind of mailing list header munging for
> > wrapping long header lines gone bad?
>
> I guess because of the added "[gnu-arch-users] " tag (which I hate,
> but many people seem to love [presumably those who put all their mail
> in one huge folder]).

Yes, it's a really strange way of categorising email, that's for sure.
I strip it with .procmail:

MAILINGLISTTAGS="docbook|Epiphany|gentoo-announce|Gnu-arch-users|NTG-context|ruby-gnome2-devel-en|RP|STUMP"

:0 fw
* $^Subject: *(R[Ee]: )+\[(${MAILINGLISTTAGS})\] \/.*
| formail -bfI "Subject: Re: $MATCH"

:0 fw
* $^Subject: *\[(${MAILINGLISTTAGS})\] \/.*
| formail -bfI "Subject: $MATCH"

        nikolai

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