twice email from the person?

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Tue Jul 26 21:21:33 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:04, Mike McGrath wrote:
>  
> > Are you getting messages two times from everyone?  Or just people that
> > reply to you?  Is it possible they are replying to all which would
> > include a message to you and to the list?  Thereby you receive two
> > emails?
> 
> 'Reply-to-all' has been the normal way to respond to internet mailing
> list messages since they were invented.  Some lists insert a Reply-To:
> with the list address which is probably reasonable on a technical
> list but is controversial on others where a plain 'reply' is expected
> to be private and accidentally directing this to the list instead could
> be embarrassing or worse.  If you aren't interested enough in a topic
> to put up with an extra copy of responses, why post about it at all?
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> 
> 

Isn't the "reply to all" or "reply" option set in each user's
preferences for the list?




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