On Wed 31 Aug 2016 at 15:04:26 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 31 Aug 2016 at 00:34:47 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > > Additionally, I have learned a little more about mutt's behaviour. > > > > <list-reply> (default: L) > > > > Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses > > which > > match the regular expressions given by the lists or subscribe commands, > > but > > also honor any Mail-Followup-To header(s) if the $honor_followup_to > > configuration variable is set. In addition, the List-Post header field > > is > > examined for mailto: URLs specifying a mailing list address. Using this > > when replying to messages posted to mailing lists helps avoid duplicate > > copies being sent to the author of the message you are replying to. > > > > Your mail had a Mail-Followup-To header to debian-user and Lisi Reisz. I > > think it was this rather than the Cc that got me a telling off. > > You got there a lot faster than I did. Presumably you don't/didn't > have any special treatment of followup_to and honor_followup_to in > your .muttrc file.
I decided many years ago that 'set followup_to=yes' didn't do anything for me. What I hadn't realised is that the combination of the default honor_followup_to and pressing 'L' could lead to a CC'ing-by-proxy chain of events.
