Era Eriksson wrote,
(First, regarding my suggestion that the poster's supplied return address
should be left alone by the list software and that, based on the content of
the post, the content of the reply, and any keyed Reply-To: [or, if a keyed
Reply-To: is impossible, a stated preference] from the poster, the respondent
can make an informed decision where to send a reply:)
| Okay, let me rephrase that: You are not addressing the needs and
| preferences of the rest of the list readers.
For one thing, this thread so far has been about the needs and preferences of
the person who asked the question. Trying to make the entire list membership
happy is a whole other idea. It's going to be impossible to find a single
course of action that satisfies everyone on the list, Era. You have to deal
with the participants in the particular discussion, whose desires (and your
own) are known to you.
(Second, regarding his idea to tag the subject lines of certain posts:)
| The idea here is to tell the +rest+ of the list that this is posted
| not because it is of genuine interest to anyone interested in
| Procmail, but just to provide an answer and tell other list readers
| what I think it is.
So the only exceptions are those posts guaranteed to be of significance to
every single list member? That would be administrative messages from the
maintainer and announcements of new releases. All other posts would need
to be tagged.
| If you're lurking on the list only to get new and
| revolutionary ideas, or just to keep on top of the list, you will
| perhaps want to filter out these messages.
It can be detected as things are now without making posters add subject tags!
If you don't want to see such posts, and a message arrives through the list
(as indicated by From_ or (Resent-)Sender: or X-Mailing-List:, not merely by
To:), and it has any non-empty Cc: on it, filter it out. That will take care
of anything sent anywhere else and carboned to the list and of anything sent
to the list and carboned anywhere else. [Be even more brutal about it if the
subject begins with Re: (or any of the annoying variants of it), because then
it's sure to be a response to something else.] If it was a response to your
own post, you'll see the directly mailed copy.