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

[Robin Gareus]

On 02/17/2013 09:52 PM, drew Roberts wrote:
> 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. 

All "replies" should to the sender only. The lists.linuxaudio.org does
not munge the headers. It's up to you and your MUA.

> 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.

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html