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

Brad Rogers brad at fineby.me.uk
Sat Mar 21 07:56:15 CET 2015


On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:52:19 -0400
Tanstaafl <tanstaafl at libertytrek.org> wrote:

Hello Tanstaafl,

>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.

Claws-Mail has the option(1) to "reply to list" when the relevant headers
are present.  Also, mailing list folders can be set up so spurious To's
and Cc's are avoided.

(1)  Can be (un)set by the user.  Most set it to on because, well, why
wouldn't you?

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