Replying to list

[Colin Law]

On 3 August 2012 20:37, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 19:40 +0100, Derek Moss wrote:
>>
>> At the moment users have to cut and paste the list address from the CC
>> field every time they want to reply to the list (using Reply All) and
>> that does seem stupid and bound to lead to messages accidentally being
>> sent privately instead of to the list.
>
> Why on earth would they do that? If they want to reply to the sender,
> they hit the 'reply' button. If they want to reply to everyone, they hit
> 'reply all'.
>
> You seem confused.

The point is that on many lists using Reply replies to the list rather
than the original sender.  On this list it is necessary to use Reply
to All (since sadly gmail does not have Reply to List) which has the
side effect of sending back to the sender as well as to the list.

Derek, I would not worry about removing the original sender, just use
Reply to All and let it go.  I believe that is the accepted practice.

Colin