[Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-Family.org
Sat Mar 21 01:38:22 CET 2015


On 3/20/15 9:52 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 3/19/2015 6:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse at fmp.com> wrote:
>> In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program
>> will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came
>> from a list and offer a "Reply to List" option in addition to a simple
>> reply, which generally goes privately to the original poster.
> I'd really like to know which email user agents really do this.
>
> In my experience, none of the ones used by 99+% of the worlds population
> actually use do this.
>
Thunderbird isn't quite like that, but when I reply to a message from 
the list I am given 3 options:

Reply
Reply All
Reply to List

The Reply to List option is made available by the List-Post header I 
believe.

-- 
Richard Damon



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