Re: [sup-talk] mailinglists in CC

From: "Philipp Überbacher" <hollunder@lavabit.com>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] mailinglists in CC
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:58:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282222230-sup-4129@eris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282220267-sup-5326@tilus.net>

Excerpts from Tero Tilus's message of 2010-08-19 14:33:24 +0200:
> Philipp, 2010-08-19 13:52:
> > Some clients seem to put the mailinglist in the CC field.
> 
> Which is pretty annoying.

Yes, but the chance of having everyone else change that is pretty slim.

> > Apparently if someone with such a client replies to me, sup will
> > automatically reply to the person, not to the list.
> 
> This might (and I really am guessing here) be because sup skips
> duplicates (by message id).  In the first exaple you get the mail
> twice (assuming you are subscribed to lista).  The one you most
> probably get first (and gets indexed first) is the message you get
> directly and which does not have list headers.  The one which makes
> the extra hop via list server (and has the list headers) gets to you
> later and is simply discarded as duplicate.  When you go reply the
> mail, sup is perfectly unaware of it being a list mail.

That makes sense. Could it check for the presence of list headers and
discard the one without?

One thing I noticed with the list in CC mails is that replying to
'recipient' would reply to the list. I don't get that from a semantic
point.

> > It's really annoying to send to single people instead of the list by
> > accident.
> 
> I can tell you it is _way_ more annoying to accidentally send private
> mail to list (I've done that, once _really_ badly).  So this behavior
> (automatical selection between list reply and private reply) should
> IMO be conservative in this sense.

I see your point. I don't know what conservative behavior would be in
this case. I think consistency is key though.
-- 
Philipp

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