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Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user



On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:01:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:09:58PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>>
> >>> If I use "reply-to-all", icedove adds the original sender in the "To:" 
> >>> field and the debian-user address in the "CC:" field. If I send it in 
> >>> this way, will the sender receive two posts? I never received multiple 
> >>> replies to any of my posts, so I think the list software probably doesn't 
> >>> send out multiple copies to the same recipient. Am I correct in assuming 
> >>> this?
> >>
> >> No.  If you send to two recipeints: the list and a person, the list
> >> can't un-send your message to the person.  You would have been sending
> >> two.  Mutt has a 'list reply' which only sends to the list.  I don't
> >> know about icedove.
> >>
> >
> > Thank you Doug, I just noticed that when I hit reply-to-all, your email did 
> > not appear in the "To:" list, and just the d-u list address appeared. 
> 
> Because Doug has set "Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org"

Not intentionally.  Perhaps mutt does that with my "subscribe
debian-..." directive in my .muttrc.  I thought that the debian lists
did that.



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