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[John]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 08:09 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> 
>>It's not very funny; unsolicited email /IS/ spam by definition and I'm
>>sure most of us don't really want to be known as spammers.  If it is
>>the software that is responsible (as I find now that it is) then  I
>>need
>>to issue an apology to someone. (Sasha, I'm sorry for jumping you when
>>you were just doing what the software made you do.)
>>
>>Truly, I am amazed that Evolution(?) is that broken.
>>Maybe Evolution's author(s) don't use mailing lists.
>>
> 
> 
> It's really not that broken - the Ubuntu lists are weird in that they
> don't set Reply-To to the list address, and people consider using
> Reply-To-All to be spamming them.
> 
> On most mailing lists either the list sets Reply-To to the list address,
> or (more commonly) users don't mind getting 2 copies of the message
> because they filter one copy into the list folder and one in their inbox
> so the threading is preserved for both provate replies and replies to
> the list.

I really don't think many people like two copies, and the default 
behaviour for mailman is to not send me a copy if my email's in the 
headers, and the result at my end is mis-sorted mail and broken threads.