mailing list config - two questions

[Will Yardley]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:46:04PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> When is it useful to have a mailing list to which
> you are not subscribed "known"?

IIRC, the original purpose was mostly to setup the (not ever ratified as
a real standard, and not commonly used now) mail-followup-to header
appropriately, that is, if you're subscribed and use "list-reply", the
mail-followup-to header gets set to just the list's address, whereas if
it's "known" only, it would set m-f-t to your email _and_ the list
address when you use "list-reply".

Since the draft, from what I can see, expired in 1998, and never became
a standard, one could make the argument that it's not really sensible
for Mutt to continue supporting it, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

w