In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Justin Sheehy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Chip are you on this list?
I'm not quite happy with this text. It advocates the use of "group
reply". That of course is part of the problem. When you send a group
reply, it will go (1) to the author of the message you're responding to,
and (2) to the list. However, the author of the original message is also
on the list and thus will receive your reply twice.
In fact, people have asked me to convert a list to munged Reply-To's in
order to stop receiving answers twice. And those who press g)roup reply
of course point out that they can't be bothered to edit the headers.
There seems to be a dearth of MUAs that offer a convenient "reply to
original addressee" function. The only thing that comes close I know of
is mutt's special mailing list handling, where you need to specify a
mailing list (mysteriously to me you must specify only the local part,
i.e. that to the left of the '@') and then you can reply to the list
with 'L'. With elm or pine you're stuck with simple reply/group reply,
unless this has changed in recent versions.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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