Apologies for miss-sent mail

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:16:01 +0800
> Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
> [replying to mailing lists]  
>   
>> It is a setting of mailman for the sounder list. 'I' hit Reply All
>> and then remove your address from the list of recipients so you do
>> not get a copy. If sounder got more traffic, I would be fuming.
>>
>>     
> I understand what you are saying.  Now understand what /I/ am saying;
> that setting does /NOT/ affect all readers.  My own, Claws mail, merely
> needs me to hit, "Reply," not, "Reply To List."  I don't have to change
> anything before sending and my mail is sent /only/ to the list.
>
> I don't deny your server-side setting, I see it in the header
> difference between the two lists, but...
>
> If a server-side setting was /completely/ responsible for /your/ having
> to jump through hoops to send mail only to the list, wouldn't that
> setting apply across the board?  Why does mine do it correctly and
> yours not if the setting responsible is on the server side?
>   
As somebody pointed out, there is an addon for thunderbird to deal with 
this. Most email clients do not have special code to handle mailing 
lists that tell your client to send replies back to the poster. So yes, 
the server-side setting is COMPLETELY responsible for my having to jump 
through hoops or install special software to deal with it.


> I'm not being contentious, I'm just trying to find out what is up.
>   

Nothing is up...except maybe why sounder alone is configured to not use 
the sounder list address in the Reply-To: but instead sticks in the 
poster's address.