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Alex Pennace alex at pennace.org
Fri Jun 3 08:47:15 PDT 2005


On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:25:38PM +0100, Martin Atkins wrote:
> I'd be happy with anything that causes people to stop using "Reply to
> All". I read the list through Gmane (<http://www.gmane.org/>) via their
> NNTP interface, but any time anyone replies to me I get duplicate
> messages in my mailbox, which is admittedly only a minor inconvenience
> but it still seems like a ridiculous side-effect of the limitations of
> bulk mailing.

In that case, set Mail-Followup-To: accordingly. See this message for
an example. Unless the client is totally borked, "Reply to All" will
use all the addresses in Mail-Followup-To:

> ...but then, I've always hated mailing lists. I moan about them all the
> time. I don't know how people put up with them! :)

I put up with mailing lists because it is better than Usenet.


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