[Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

[Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 20/08/13 13:15, Andy McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Yep.  Someone decided it didn't make sense for "reply" to go to the list
>> that sent the message
>
>
> Lists never send messages. People do.
>
> So reply goes to the *person* who sent the message.
> Which is what mail always does, to modify it for mail
> forwarded by a list server makes no sense whatsoever.
> And it breaks the ability to send to the originator.

The From: field still contains an e-mail address of a human.  Just
copy-paste it into the To: field of your reply.

And replying to the human instead of the list is almost never what you want.

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