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Re: First steps in packaging



On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:12:26AM -0500, Tony Maro wrote:
> Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> >PPS. Most people who read the Debian mailing lists are subscribed to
> >them. Mailing them as well as the list means they get two copies.
> >Being a cantankerous lot as a rule, we don't like this :)
> 
> Odd considering that so far most every reply that I've received (except 
> yours of course) included two copies.  And the fact that you can't just 
> hit "reply" and have it go back to the list - it wants to only reply to 
> the sender.  I'm surprised the list doesn't set the reply-to field.

There are good reasons for this that have been gone over uncountable
times. It's best to use a mailer that has a reply-to-list function.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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