Carbon Copies (CC's)

[Andreas Metzler]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:38:43AM -0500, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i
but no Mail-Followup-To

> Quoting Clint Adams (schizo at debian.org):
>>> Hoping y'all don't mind, but I've got a small request.  Most of the 
>>> bogofilter mail I receive arrives in duplicate - one copy via the list and 
>>> one direct to me.  Consequently for most every message I read, I trash a 
>>> duplicate.
 
>> If you can configure your MUA to set a Mail-Follow-Up to header, many
>> MUAs will respect that.

> Now *this* is why I think the guy who wrote "Reply-To Munging Considered
> Harmful" is full of it.  If replies aren't set to go back to the list,
> people just hit "group reply", and sends a message to the author, cc'ed to
> the list and an ever growing list of other people on the cc list from
> previous group replies.
[...]

Consult the manual of your MUA and get a _very_ nice surprise ;-) Mutt
does support Mail-Followup-To _perfectly. Check for L (list reply)
"subscribe" and "lists".

# snip from muttrc:
subscribe bogofilter at aotto.com bogofilter-dev at aotto.com
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