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Re: List Ettiquette



On Sun,30.Aug.09, 06:46:26, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> Careful as I am, I did manage to send "OFF-LIST" replies to a mailing
> list by mistake on a couple of occasions.. with no serious damage, it
> was just innocuous stuff that I felt was a bit too OT for the list.. 
> 
> But all the same it's not a pleasant experience.
> 
> Here's how it happens:
> 
> You're in mutt, you hit "r" for reply to poster instead of "L" for reply
> to list and this annoying "Reply-To: list" causes the "To:" header that
> is automatically created to point to the list instead of the poster's
> private address.
> 
> I caught a few of those in time, but sooner or later you forget to check
> before hitting "y" (send).

Maybe you should 'set ignore_list_reply_to'?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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