[LAU] (OT) list addresses (was Re: Audio distros)

[drew Roberts]

On Sunday 17 February 2013 11:49:06 Joe Hartley wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:36:46 +0800
>
> Simon Wise <simonzwise at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18/02/13 00:22, Len Ovens wrote:
> > > On Sun, February 17, 2013 4:00 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > >> [No need to include me in the reply, I'm subscribed to the list]
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, this list does not add a replyto: field so the only way
> > > of getting things to the list is with reply all.... or spend time
> > > messing with all the header fields.
> >
> > I thought most email clients have supported reply-to-list based on
> > List-id for ages?
>
> It's not so much the mail client as the list settings and the headers it
> adds to the email (though some clients are broken with regards to this).
>
> For me, using the Sylpheed client, a simple reply comes back to the list,
> while a reply-all goes to the sender with a cc: to the list, which would
> cause the original sender to get the message twice.  When replying to a
> list, you hardly ever want to reply-all.

Nor mally, a simple reply works for me but for some posts, a reply just goes 
back to the sender. For those, if I catch them, I start again with a 
reply-all and delete all but the list normally. When I don't catch it, I end 
up sending driect and not to the list. In those cases, I hopefully catch it 
later and send again to the list the second time.

I have not investigated if this occurs when people cc the list instead of 
having the mail sent to the list.

all the best,

drew