Replying to The Speakup List?

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sun Mar 11 01:56:31 EST 2007


This is where mutt shines.  It is the only mailer I  know of that allows
for a special "List reply" function.  Just do a shift L and no matter
how the list is configured, mutt will code the reply as a single message
to the list and to noone else.

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> Whether you include the original post or not, isn't the issue
> here. When replying to some posts, in addition to the address for the
> list, you also have the address of the original sender of the message
> as well in the reply to field. Personally, I think this is a from
> header misconfiguration on the part of whoever posted the message to
> which you're replying. Incidently, if you chose to reply to just that
> message, and not the entire list in this scenario, you'll get the list
> address in the reply to field, instead of the original sender's
> address. So, no, in this case, the message isn't just going to
> speech.braille.uwo.ca.
> 
> The solution here is obvious, remove the original sender's address
> from the reply to field, just leaving the list address. I personally
> didn't bother doing that, since I don't see a big issue with the
> sender getting my message twice, through the list, as well as
> directly. However, now that I know this issue exists, I'll be taking
> care to check the reply to field when sending a reply to a post from
> this list, as well as other mailman lists I guess, since I imagine the
> problem isn't unique to this list.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:17:48AM +0100, Doug Smith wrote:
> > Ok, I guess the best solution to all this might be to do what I am
> > doing.  I never include the messages back in the post.  I just put in
> > my message and let her fly.  I have never had a problem.  
> > 
> > Why should there be more than one recipient?  The list machine, the
> > one at the University of Western Ontario is the only recipient.  This
> > machine distributes the messages to all the list members.  Just try
> > not including original messages and see if this stops. it.  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hope this helps. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Doug Smith: C.S.F.C.
> > Computer Scientist For CHRIST
> > 
> > 
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> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
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