RE: ccing

["David Haughton" <david@agentx.org>]

> Incoming from Cheryl Homiak:
> > I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. 
> However, it's 
> > often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least 
> in Pine, I 
> > often
> 
> The usual reply to this is submit a bug report.  If it came 
> from a list, the reply should go to the list.  If you want to 
> reply to the author, that should take manual intervention.  
> In the meantime, switch to something that does it right, mutt for one.

Most email clients will act this way (i.e. Thunderbird, Pine, Outlook*)
because the person that sent the email to the list is in the "From" field
and I don't see the "Reply-To" field being set by the listserv. Some
listservs will also rewrite the "From" so that even clients that ignore the
"Reply-To" will reply to the list. It will then appear something like "From:
debain-users@lists.debian.org on behalf of so-and-so". How does mutt know to
reply to the email address in the "To" field and not the "From" field
without user intervention?

--David

*I'm forced to use this at work :(