[Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri Mar 20 15:03:41 CET 2015


On 03/20/2015 06:52 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 3/19/2015 6:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse at fmp.com> wrote:
>> In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program
>> will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came
>> from a list and offer a "Reply to List" option in addition to a simple
>> reply, which generally goes privately to the original poster.
> 
> I'd really like to know which email user agents really do this.


Actually, it doesn't work that way in any of the MUAs I know. But many
offer a Reply List choice if the message has a List-Post: header.
Thunderbird is one. Mutt offers an 'L' command to reply to the list.

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