Re: Help on using Debian

[Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com>]

On 09/07/2014, Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Your question needs to go to the list address. Replies only go to the list.


This has previously been discussed.

Replies can go to either the poster of a message, or to the list, if
only the Reply option is chosen, depending on the particular email
application and its configuration and configuration provisions, as
used by a person replying to a list message.

gmail defaults to the poster of the message, and can not be configured
otherwise, and the email application, alpine,  also defaults to the
poster of the message, and can not be simply configured otherwise, if
the Reply option is chosen, and, this rule applies, unless the poster
of the message to which the reply is being made, sets the Reply To
field in that person's email application settings, or, manually enters
the list email address in the To field, when composing a reply.

>From the full header of the message that is the originating message in
the thread;

"
X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0
"

which might not allow the user to set the reply options, to look for
the List-Post field in message headers, as was previously mentioned on
this mailing list.

So, "Replies only go to the list", is not correct.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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