mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (11/19/88)
There have been an annoying number of unintended Cc's lately, on several redistribution lists to which I subscribe. This occurs when a reader replies to a message meaning only to send it to the sender, what s/he fails to notice is that his/her overeager mailer has included the list's address on the Cc: line. MH users can prevent this by making the following changes to their $HOME/.mh_profile: Create or modify the Alternate-Mailboxes line such that it names each of the redistribution lists you subscribe to, for example: Alternate-Mailboxes: mesard,bargain,connectionists Create or modify the repl line to contain the option "-nocc me". Note that this tells the repl(1) command not to send carbon copies to you or any of the addresses listed as your alternate mailboxes. If you really do want copies of your messages use the -fcc switch. So the line might look something like this: repl: -nocc me -fcc +outbox Hope this helps. (Someone). -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); "He sounds like a really weird guy. What's MESARD@BBN.COM he doing for Thanksgiving?" BBN, Cambridge, MA -DB.
gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) (11/19/88)
From article <32507@bbn.COM>, by mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard): > > MH users can prevent this by making the following changes to their > $HOME/.mh_profile: > > Create or modify the Alternate-Mailboxes line such that it names each of > the redistribution lists you subscribe to, for example: > > Alternate-Mailboxes: mesard,bargain,connectionists I prefer just to use '-nocc all'. Short, sweet and to the point. When you want to reply to a message that is addressed to a group of individuals, you can just use 'repl -nocc all' and you will get a To: line with just the... well, whatever you have specified in your repl-filter and components file. -- It isn't the DREAM that NASA's missing... DOMAIN: gregg@ihlpb.att.com It's a direction! UUCP: att!ihlpb!gregg