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From: israel@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Bruce Israel)
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Subject: make Rmail reply only to sender
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 04:10:12 EDT
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   From: Ashwin Ram <ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA>

   I define a function that reverses the sense of rmail-reply's argument:

   I prefer the lower-case "r" to be rmail-reply-no-cc since that's what I
   usually want as my default.  I then use either "C-U r" or just "R" to
   get the CC's when I want them.  [This should probably be the default in
   RMAIL instead of the other way around.]

No, I'd rather that the default remain as it is.  Most of the mail that I
send to lists tends to be of the discussion kind, that I want to go to
everyone.  Rather than changing the default, it'd be nice to have a
variable that allows user's to to reverse that behaviour.  For example:

(defvar rmail-default-reply-to-sender-only nil)

and then the top-level rmail-reply function would be set up something
like: 

       (defun new-rmail-reply (invert-default)
	  (interactive "P")
	  (rmail-reply (if invert-default
			   (not rmail-default-reply-to-sender-only)
			   rmail-default-reply-to-sender-only)))

Actually, what I found was a useful default was to change bindings to that
replying to mail automatically includes the reply body.  That would be nice
to have on a variable as well.

Bruce