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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