On 03/19/2015 04:50 PM, Peter Shute wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >> It is polite, though, to make sure you're not sending >> duplicate posts to people by doing a "Reply to All" which >> will probably send a copy of your reply to _both_ the list >> and the original poster. I think that this is a common point >> of confusion. "All" in this context doesn't mean "all the >> list subscribers", but "all the addresses in the headers." > > In all the mail clients I use, I get a choice of Reply, which for this list > will reply only to the original sender, or Reply All, which sends it to the > original sender and the list. If I want to reply just to the list, I have to > hit Reply All and then delete the original sender's address. I usually don't > bother, and I assumed most people don't. Has that been annoying people? I > thought mailman was smart enough not to send another copy to people in the Cc > list.
On Mailman lists at least it is a user option to receive or not receive two copies of list posts in which they are also directly addressed. Thus, I feel it is never necessary to remove the poster's address from a 'reply all'. In fact there is at least one good reason not to. Namely, the poster might be a digest member or even on some lists, a non-member, and 'reply all' gets them a copy now as opposed to in the next digest or never. That said, I tend to use 'reply list' when it's available. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
