Mailing list etiquette

Caleb Marcus caleb.marcus at gmail.com
Sun Nov 4 18:55:10 GMT 2007


I switched from Thunderbird to Evolution a few weeks ago, but I don't
remember seeing any way to set up a filter that does what you want...
you could set up another mail account with a different reply-to, but
that seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 13:27 -0500, leftyfb wrote:

> I try to make it easy on people and change the "Reply To" in the emails
> I send to that of the mailing list address. So people SHOULD just be
> able to it reply and it should send it to the mailing list. Let me know
> if this is or isn't the case.
> 
> I'm using Thunderbird and don't have a "Reply to list" button. I found
> an extension but it doesn't seem to do anything. I'm also looking for a
> way to set some sort of rule that when replying to an email with the
> ubuntu mailing list address in the To: field, it automatically puts the
> same address in the Reply To when replying.
> 
> Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> > On 11/4/07, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  I've generally been using Reply All, which results in the message being
> >> CC'd to the list, and sent to the sender of the message. However, I just
> >> found that my mail client has a "Reply to List" button, which sends the
> >> message only to the mailing list. What's the right way to do it?
> > 
> > I hit Reply To All (and leave the persons name there). However, if
> > you're not responding to that particular person's message (rare), you
> > might want to take that person's email out. I haven't heard any
> > complaints yet.
> > 
> 
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