vnc-list Outlook problems, was RE: Noise on the vnc-list :

[Chris Dillon]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:

> > Without the Reply-To header, "reply" lets you talk to the author,
> > and "reply all" lets you talk to the list; I don't see why that
> > is a problem, unless there are user on the list that use MUAs
> > without a "reply all" command.
> 
> Using Reply-to-all in this way will cause the list _and_ the
> sender to receive the email.  If the sender is on the list then
> they receive two copies.  If a conversation on the list continues
> for a while and has multiple correspondents, they will all end up
> getting two copies of each mail after a while.

Most of the lists I am on do it that way, and there is much agreement
that is the "correct" way to do it, though there is always the
occasional "why don't you just use the reply-to so I don't get two
copies" whining on occasion, but the person is then told to set up a
mail filter instead.  I've set up mail filters with procmail to sort
mail from individual lists into their own folders.  When someone sends
a message that goes to both the list AND to myself, then I get one
message in my inbox, and the other message in the list folder.  Its
rather nice, as I know right away when someone has replied to me
instead of having to wade through the rest of the list messages to
find the replies.


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