Evolution and replying to the list

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 12:38:24 BST 2006


Tim Frost wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 06:37 +0000, Yuki Cuss wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:22 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 
>>> P.S. Again, Sasha, and Yuki - why are you sending direct and CC ing the
>>> list? It is incredibly annoying, as Cybe R. Wizard has pointed out.
>>>
>>> Nobody else seems to do it, and a normal "Reply to List" just sends back
>>> to the sender and not the list if you do. Please observe the usual practice
>>> for this list and send to the list itself.
> I assume Peter means "Reply", not "Reply to list".
> 
> Because this list doesn't set a "reply-to" header, we get the following
> behaviour from evolution:
>   Reply: replies to the message sender only
>   Reply all: puts the list in the CC: header
> 
>> P.S. sorry Peter; I'm using Evolution; its default action is to choose
>> you as the primary recipient and CC the list. I'll hunt for options!
> 
> Reply to list is available in evolution, using the keyboard with Ctrl-R,
> or the menus via "Message->Reply to List".  That picks up the list, and
> ignores the message sender. This will help Yuki, who uses evolution, but
> not Sasha, who is using gmail, with the User-Agent given as "User-Agent:
> Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060309)".
> 
Actually I use thunderbird, and I woud love to knwo who to do reply-to-list.

Sasha




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