Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:53:13PM -0700, Jimmy Richards wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> There is something I have been confused/wondering about for some
> time. I thought I once saw someone say in their reply that they
> didn't need to Cc: to debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying to
> a message because they are already signed up on the mailing list. It
> looks like I am seeing two messages from some people who have
> replied to a question from someone. Which to me means that they
> replied to the the person asking the question, and Cc:'d to
> debian-users lists, resulting in me(and everyone on the mailing list
> I imagine) receiving two replys that are exactly the same. One of of
> them being an unessary duplicate because of the Cc:. I have been Cc
> my replies to the debian-user list lately because I thought maybe my
> responses were only going to the person I was replying to. But I
> don't know. Do I need to put in the Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> if I want to make sure it goes out to everyone? Or is this automatic
> because I am signed up on the mail list. I tried looking at the FAQ
> for the mailing list to see if I could find anything about this
> subject, but didn't see anything on it. I'm wodering if I don't need
> to be Cc'ing, then how does that work? How does it go out to
> everyone? If someone could enlighten me I'd sure appreciate it.
> Excuse me for my ignorance on this matter, but I thinking I might
> not be the only one cornfused... :-)
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jimmy Richards
>
>
It is dependant on your mailer, I use mutt, which can be configured to
reply to the List, even if the mail was from a persons account, provided
that the headers included a list address I was subscribed to (or aware
of) Look in the help docs for mutt. For other mua, I have no idea
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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