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From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,news.misc
Subject: Careless Cc's to mailing lists
Message-ID: <32507@bbn.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 23:19:47 GMT
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Reply-To: mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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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.