Re: From: Sharon Kimble, Subject: Re: editor and word processor history

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <87mwdyyv6i.fsf_-_@debian.uxu>,
 Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> I got this as a mail, but I suspect it was intended for
> the list, so I send it without asking. By the way, this
> has started to happening a lot lately - it was actually
> one of the first thing I asked on this list, I often
> get CC of posts (as mails) that are intended as posts -
> that doesn't bother me as I've instructed Gnus to put
> those in a cc group, and those posts go to the group as
> well, so no harm - however, what I can see, this was
> just a pure mail and didn't reach the group (correct me
> if I'm wrong). So, there must be something with my
> posts that tells other clients "this guy isn't on the
> list, include a CC" *or* (worse) "this isn't even a
> post, reply as mail".

The newsgroup is gatewayed to a mailing list. People who read it as  
email are likely to do Reply-All, so the poster gets a copy.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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