[GRASSLIST:1065] Re: Mailing List Modifications

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:36:44PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
> >     How about a useful change such as having the from field re-written to
> > grasslist at baylor.edu so that every time one clicks respond we don't need to
> > remember to do it manually.
> 
>   For those of us who use pine, response to a mail list message always
> generates the question, "Respond to all recipients?". If I answer, "no", the
> reply goes to the individual author. If I answer, "yes", then the reply goes
> to the list. For all I know, other MUAs work the same way.

It's annoying to get two copies of a message though.  

The best solution for threading is not messing with the 'Message-Id:'
or the 'References:' headers which are the "proper" headers MUA's should
use for threading (not the Subject line which anyone can alter in a
reply).

Also, the mailinglist program should set:

X-Mailing-List: grasslist at baylor.edu
X-Loop: grasslist at baylor.edu

The first notifies any mail program that this is a list message.  The
second is protection for grasslist from bouncing messages.


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#! /bin/sh
# ppp-address: What's my Internet Address for ppp0 ?
/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 2> /dev/null | grep 'inet addr:' | sed \
's=.*inet addr\:\([0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\.[0-9]\{1,3\}\).*=\1='