On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:00:27PM +0100, David J. Ruck wrote: >> please, if sending a private copy to somebody while posting to the >> list, put the list in the TO field and the private copy in CC or BCC? > Just noticed its Thunderbird doing that. On some lists the Reply To All > button replies back To the list as expected, on others such as this one > it replies To the sender and CCs the list. > I suspect it may be the lack of the Mail-Followup-To header on posts by > this list. Please could the administrators look in to it, to prevent > annoyance from people receiving two messages.
That's because you're confusing two independent concepts. Reply/Reply-To-All are meant to reply to a person or group of people. List-Reply is meant to reply to the mailing list. That thunderbird only provides the former of those is a deficiency in your chosen mail client and something that you will have to work around. The mailing list is configured correctly, rather than with concessions to inferior software. Mail-Followup-To is the responsibility of the sender normally, indicating whether they would prefer to be replied to directly, or if they prefer that the replies be directed at the list. The only reason I don't yet use them is because I haven't quite formulated a preference. Unfortunately with people using mail clients which don't pay attention to the list headers, there's not a lot we can do without breaking it for those of us who use clients which do. If any of you can determine a mailman setting we may have overlooked which will swap things around (without overwriting the Reply-To header which belongs to the originator, not the mailing list) then please tell me and I will reconfigure the list appropriately if it won't break anything else. Regards, Daniel. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged. Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
