Re: reply to setting

Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:

> This is very true. In fact, I get mildly annoyed when people *don't* include
> the direct reply to me, because I very actively filter/redirect my mail.
> Replies directly to me are pretty much guaranteed to be seen quickly, but the
> ones that go to the list might get lost among the hundreds of posts that go
> into my "postgres" inbox every day. I think many other people do something
> similar.

Just as a side comment, one trick I found very helpful in my mail filters is
to treat any message with one of my message-ids in the references as a
personal message as far as mail notifications. This way I get notifications
for any message on a thread following a post of my own.

This is easy in Gnus since the message id has the sending hostname and also
the first few characters has a base64 encoded copy of the unix userid. You
would have to figure out how to recognize message-ids from your MUA.


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greg