[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Header Etiquette (was: MP3 Patent Issues)

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Sunday, 2 July 2000 6:54 PM -0400 Daniel Burrows 
<Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[copying ML responses to senders]
> There are essentially two schools of thought here (somewhat exaggerated
> for comic effect, of course ;-) ):
>
> School A: "Redundancy Is Evil.  Any attempt to send me two copies of a
>            message costs me X amount of download time (and money), is
>            simply annoying and ill-considerate, and should be a crime
>            punishable by death, or at least public humiliation."
>
> School B: "I am subscribed to a hundred mailing lists and get 1,000 
messages a
>            day.  Messages which are sent To: these lists are filtered 
into
>            separate folders.  I DEMAND that you send me a private copy of
>              all email traffic, or I will shun you and never speak to you
>              again (primarily because I can't find your messages under all my
>              other email)"
I got two copies of this message, and both of them landed in my 
freeciv-lists folder.  A correctly phrased rule will do this.  Finding the 
correct phrasing is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader. (-:
>   I'm firmly in School B -- I only subscribe to a dozen or so lists, and
>   many of those are pretty quiet, but it's still very nice to have
> replies to messages I wrote drop into my personal mailbox (which is the
> first thing I read, and gets the most attention)
RIght now I'd rather that all mailing-list traffic stay in its designated 
folder.  Maybe when I'm subscribed to more mailing lists I'll feel 
differently.
>   I also get really annoyed with lists that set Reply-To, although mutt
>   does make it possible (thank God!) to override that to send the author
> a private reply.  Group-reply still breaks horribly, though.. :(
Well, _my_ mail client (-: (Mulberry v2.0.0) gives a dialog box before 
composing the message where I can choose, for each possible recipient, 
whether to send them a To:, CC:, BCC;, or nothing at all; there are a 
couple of relatively non-broken defaults that can be chosen.
Of course, I'd expect any halfway-decent mail client will let you juggle 
the addresses once you've started composing.
--Jed; or you could compose all the relevant headers manually in an editor 
and feed the raw message to an MTA {-: