[Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

[leam hall]

Replying to the human, vice the list, is about 99% never what I want. With
a 1% margin of error.  :)

Leam



On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <
kwpolska at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
> > On 20/08/13 13:15, Andy McKenzie wrote:
> >
> >> Yep.  Someone decided it didn't make sense for "reply" to go to the list
> >> that sent the message
> >
> >
> > Lists never send messages. People do.
> >
> > So reply goes to the *person* who sent the message.
> > Which is what mail always does, to modify it for mail
> > forwarded by a list server makes no sense whatsoever.
> > And it breaks the ability to send to the originator.
>
> The From: field still contains an e-mail address of a human.  Just
> copy-paste it into the To: field of your reply.
>
> And replying to the human instead of the list is almost never what you
> want.
>
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