On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:06:05AM -0700, Dick Moores wrote: > Replying only to the list takes a bit of trouble. The default > behavior seems to be that the "Reply" button addresses the author > only and not the list; "Reply to all" addresses both the list, the > author, and any others included in the To: or Cc: headers of the post > being replied to. Or at least that's how Eudora and Gmail work. > > Ten years ago or so I managed a Majordomo list, and I recall that it > was possible for the list manager to configure the list to include a > "Reply-To" header. If this would be possible for the admins to do > with Tutor -- to include a "Reply-To: [email protected]" header in the > posts sent out by the list, it would enable us to address a reply > only to the list by hitting the "Reply" button.
Mutt can be configured to recognize which emails are from a mailing list and provides a list-reply command which only replies to the list. http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.9 I've read Thunderbird have been planning a list-reply button, but could only find information on a plugin (and patch) which does this at the moment: http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=ReplyToListThunderbirdExtension#toc3 About other mail clients, I don't know. Procmail can be configured to detect these duplicates and filter/delete/forward/etc. them: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/procmail/ (7th paragraph, "Now, here's a really useful rule, ...") I don't post that often so I don't get this that often, so it doesn't bother me that much, but I could see how it'd be annoying to those who post frequently. -- Tom Fitzhenry _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
