On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Bill Broadley wrote (offlist):

> Your emailing vox-tech AND cc'ing vox-tech, making duplicates...

Happens occasionally.

When someone sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or
[EMAIL PROTECTED], then the list experiences a little identity problem
and sends messages with headers

 To: "vox-tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and my Pine asks me if I want to send to all recipients when I reply.  If
I am not paying attention and respond with "y" then both addresses get
stuffed in.  If I again fail to pay attention and don't delete the cc,
then I end up sending the duplicate.

If they send to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I don't have this problem.  The
headers then look like:

 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I try to deal with it, but sometimes I miss.  If it gets to be enough of a
problem, someone will kick me off or fix the list.  Since the specifics of
email _handling_ (as opposed to _generation_ :) ) is definitely one of my
weak points, I tend to refrain from backseat administering. In this case,
it looks as simple as fixing the "reply-to" in the list configuration...
but I don't know.  Maybe then the people with franz in their address books
will cause the problem.

On the other hand, since I only occasionally see others fall into the same
trap, I wonder how their MUAs are configured...  or perhaps most people
just reply to messages sent to franz and ignore the ones sent to lugod. :)

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