regarding the reply address on the list....INTERESTING - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Feb 2000

On Feb 3, 21:50, Tony Duell wrote:
...
  > The reasons you give for wishing to change back
are the reasons I wish
 > things to stay as they are now.  I hit "Reply to All" and the reply
goes to
...
  > you, and to the list.  I hit "Reply",
and only you get the reply.  I can
...

 Ah, but that doesn't work properly if you're replying to a message that
 somebody else has already group-replied to.

 Supposing you post to classiccmp, and I group-reply. The message is now
 going to classiccmp@... _and you_. Suppose Philip Belben then
 group-replies to the message. It now has you, me, and the list as
 addresses. Then Megan (say) group-replies to that. Before long, the
 header contains the address of every 'regular' here. And we all get
 things twice.

 The only ways for me to reply to the list _only_ seem to be : 
You missed one: "reply-all" and remove the original author's address.

It obviously depends on the mailer(s) involved.  With the one I use nearly
all the time (zmail under Unix), if I hit "reply all" then both the list
and original author addresses appear in the "To:" header, and because of
the way that's presented by this particular mailer, it's easy for me to
remove the one I don't want (two keystrokes).  However, if I reply to a
followup that someone else has already responded to, and that message has
the list address in the "Cc:" instead of the "To:" header, zmail keeps
it
in the "Cc:" and it means two more keystrokes to fix.  I can do exactly the
same thing in BSD Mail but it take an extra keystroke or two.

And I apologise not always practising what I preach, i.e. for sending 3
extra copies of an earlier followup :-(

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York