Replying to list

[Derek J. Balling]

On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Derek Moss <dmgi at stoptheviolence.co.uk> wrote:
> When I reply to a message it always puts the e-mail of the sender
> rather than the list in the To field. The only way round this I've
> found so far is to click Reply All and then cut
> get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org from the CC field and paste it in the
> To field but is there a better way, as I keep forgetting and just
> click Reply and don't always notice it's going to the sender rather
> than the list?

There's simply two schools of thought when it comes to mailing lists. 

1.) Reply-To header should be included, set to the mailing list address
2.) No Reply-To header, mail is sent to the original sender

mailman defaults, I believe, to the latter. You can set it to do the former, but it's a manual operation.

The "logic" behind the default is that the mail is technically from "Joe" and if you reply, there's a CHANCE you want to just reply to joe, and might be including information private for joe's eyes. If there's a reply-to header that reply with joes-eyes-only content will go to the list (bad juju). 

But this is really a matter of "IT religious debate" that there is no "right" answer to.

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