Hendrik van Rooyen <hend...@microcorp.co.za> writes: > If I [use the “reply to author” command], then the mail would go just > to you, and not to the list at all, which is not what I suspect you > want, in view of what you have just said.
Right. The common “reply” command in most mail clients means “reply to author”, and as you say, it requests to compose a reply addressed to the author. > It would really be nice if the "reply" would go to the list, but for > the digest versions, at least, it does not. No, it really wouldn't; because if you're asking to compose a message address to the *author*, and it instead gets addressed to the whole *list*, that's a recipe for disastrous communication errors. Instead, it would be nice if people had a “reply to list” command, and used that when they choose to send a message to the list. > And different mail clients do not seem to make a difference. Fortunately, the messages that come from the list enable any mail client to know the correct address for “reply to list”. It only remains to choose a mail client that knows how to use it. -- \ “… one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was | `\ that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful | _o__) termination of their C programs.” —Robert Firth | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list