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Re: Responses to the list



On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:25 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> >If you send question to the list, you should expect the answer
> >to only go to the list.
> >  
> >
> Ok, now I'm confused.  I've seen so much "respond this way" on the list 
> lately.  I'm using Tbird, and when I hit "reply" it replies to the 
> poster only.  When I hit "reply-all" it goes to the poster, the list, 
> and maybe a few others that got picked up along the way.  I thought this 
> was done on purpose so as not to munge email headers with mailman, 
> but... now I've seen people say:
> 
> 1) CC me because I'm not on the list (ok done - hit reply-all)
> 2) Respond to the list and don't CC me
> 
> So in this case, do we hit reply-all, and cut and paste the list email 
> as the To: line, removing all others, etc?
> 
> It seems to me if this is the behavior desired, then the mail headers 
> should be munged in mailman like so many others lists do.

Doesn't T-bird have a "Reply to list" option?

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