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Re: netiquette: CCing on lists



* Bijan Soleymani (bijan@psq.com) [031029 07:26]:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:44:52PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:12:28PM -0500, David Gaudine wrote:
> > > With this mail program (the default Mac mail program, which I've not
> > > used much), when I click "reply" it's your address that gets used.
> > > I manually changed it in my earlier followup (surely you didn't get a
> > > CC of that.)  I don't know if it's because of your headers, the list, or
> > > with this mail program.  Regardless, the clue is not there.
> > 
> > Ah, that's why.  Don't hit reply, hit reply-to-list.
> 
> There is a header one can set to indicate where the mail should go. Mutt
> respects this header so I just hit g (group reply) and it figures out if
> the person wants replies or not.

AFAIK, group-reply doesn't do this.  group-reply is used to send a reply
back to everyone.  list-reply (default: L) is what you want.  list-reply
will honor the sender's preferences indicated via the Mail-Followup-To
header.

good times,
Vineet
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