List responces (Was: Re: Third-party products that include Cygwin)

Rolf Campbell Endlisnis@mailc.net
Sun Dec 21 03:11:00 GMT 2003


Larry Hall wrote:
> At 05:24 PM 12/13/2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen you wrote:
>>PLEASE NOTE:
>>** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list **
> 
> I'm a little confused by the intent of your "note" above.  If this is 
> directed at me, I replied to your message the way I always reply, with
> "reply all".  That goes to the list.  It also goes to you directly, since
> you don't set your reply-to header.  If you prefer to get just one copy 
> of any reply (i.e. the one that goes to the list), set your reply-to
> header to point to the list.  My email client will obey your stated 
> preference automatically.  Of course, if you were directing this comment
> at someone else, then you can ignore the above.
You have made an assumption that everyone accesses this list the same 
way you do.  For those of us that use the nntp gateway, we cannot set 
our reply-to field to be the list.



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