Mailing list etiquette

[Aaron Haviland]

Caleb Marcus wrote, on Nov 04, 2007 at 12:57 EST:
> 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 always use "reply to list" (in fact, I have a couple key-bindings in mutt to
do this for me: "bind pager l list-reply" and "bind index l list-reply"

I have had a few people respond to messages I've sent to the list, that
came to me directly, and not through the list... of course such messages
didn't get auto-filtered by procmail into my ubuntu-us-ma mbox because
they didn't have any of the mailman headers.


Actually, now that I notice... it was *you* Caleb that had been not
getting filtered properly because I was in the To:, and I believe
mailman by default doesn't resend emails to people who are specifically
addressed in the To: or Cc: fields.

I was going to complain at you, but I forgot and it only happened a few
times :P

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Aaron Haviland
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