Scott Sinclair wrote: >> 2009/12/7 Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net>: >> I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python >> lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I >> see From: a...@xyz.net and To: >> matplotlib-users-5nwgofrqmnerv+lv9mx5uipxlwaov...@public.gmane.org, >> then Reply All gets both. If I see, From: joe...@xyz.net and To: my >> e-mail address (or any personal e-address), then Reply All only goes to >> the From e-address, which means I have to fill in the e-address for this >> mail list. Apparently, some people from outside using a mail program >> like Thunderbird. How do I get two for price of one, so to speak? > > The default "Reply To" on this list is set to go to the original > poster. It's a setting in the mailing list software, not anyone's > e-mail client. > > If you post a question and someone responds using "Reply To", then > their response will go directly to you. If they respond using "Reply > To All" (as I have here) then the e-mail is copied to the list address > as well. > > The moral? Always use "Reply To", and hope everyone else remembers to > do so as well :)
Did you mean "Reply All"? Some of us would appreciate it if people just responded to the list and not including our individual addresses at all. With very rare exceptions, everyone who posts is already on the list. I subscribe to the list via the GMane NNTP interface and hate receiving private-looking (hence urgent-looking) replies in my inbox. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
