OT!! Reply to Group

[Linux-Fan]

On 07/01/2014 10:37 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> I'm forever replying to sender as an individual, instead of the
> group-sender by hitting "reply". Someone hinted that this was some old
> flame war, etc. Out of PURE ignorance and being fairly new to this
> provenance, is there a reason behind it that makes sense?

As far as I understand this is done to retain the ability for a poster
to _either_ reply to the list or to the message's author whereas adding
a "Reply-To: debian-user..." header would prevent this making the
"Reply" and "Reply List" buttons (e.g. in Icedove) equivalent.
Additionally, this way, the original message is altered as little as
possible.

> The various Debian lists are the only lists I've encountered since the
> days of Slackware floppy installs that acts in this fashion hitting
> reply, which replies to individual sender instead of the group-sender.
> 
> I'd just like to be less ignorant. Thanks, in advance, for any reasoned
> replies. Ric

Just guessing and HTH
Linux-Fan


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 897 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/d-community-offtopic/attachments/20140701/acae7f43/attachment.sig>