On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:47:22PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:56:20PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > debian users: > > > > I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my > > reply > > went to the message author and not to the list. It is my understanding > > that the > > people in charge of this list think that his behavior is a feature, not a > > bug. > > I disagree. > > > > How about this: write a procmail recipe to add a Reply-To header for > all mails from debian-user. > > That would do the trick without hurting list settings.
I'm using mutt, which hardly makes me unusual here, I imagine, and I can either press 'L' to reply to the list or 'r' to reply to the poster off-list. Don't other mail clients have similar facilities? The original poster obviously knew nothing about such things, but how should he have known? I remember having the same problem when I started: using the 'r' command and cc-ing the list by hand, thus delivering two copies to the OP. This seems to be just one of those dozens (hundreds, thousands...) of little things that are all there somewhere in some documentation but that a newcomer can't be expected to look for because he/she just doesn't visualise their existence. (This is not intended as a reply to your message, Kumar, but I'd deleted the previous messages before I thought of replying on the topic in general.) Cheers, David -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
