Russell Butler wrote:

> Trevor Farlow wrote:
>> Mathias Bauer wrote:
>>> Trevor Farlow wrote:
>>>
>>>> A long-time OOo user, I've found myself with enough time again to answer
>>>> user questions from time-to-time.  Here's my issue: I read the list as a
>>>> newsgroup, and I look for the
>>>>      Delivered-To: moderator for [email protected] moderator
>>>> in the headers to know when the OP needs a copy of my response.  But
>>>> depending on how I do it -- sometimes CC:, sometimes TO: -- occasionally
>>>> it doesn't show that I copied the OP when the message hits the list.
>>>>
>>>> Two questions:
>>>> 1) Am I looking in the right place to determine whether the OP is
>>>> subscribed to the list?
>>>>
>>>> 2) How do the more experienced list members out there send copies to the
>>>> unsubscribed OPs?
>>> I have set up a filter in TBird that labels all moderated posts so that
>>> the color of the message in the message list pane immediately tells me
>>> that the message I'm going to reply to is a moderated one. Then I copy
>>> the poster's address and put him to into cc. There is no way to make
>>> TBird add the "From:" address to the list of recipients. Surely that's
>>> aligned with the recommended practice as explained by Brian but in case
>>> of mailing lists that munge the Reply-To it came in handy.
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>> Mathias
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Great idea, Mathias.
> 
> That's fine, Mathias, but it doesn't work on newsgroup messages (gmane). 
> Labelling by filters isn't available as far as I can see.

That's one of the reasons why I prefer direct subscription over
newsgroups. The second one is the ridiculous offline support of
Thunderbird (I read most of my mails sitting in the train on my way to
and from work ;-)). There are some smaller ones but these are the main
blockers for me.

Ciao,
Mathias

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OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS
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