On Thu, 23 May 2019 15:21:30 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):
>
> > Hi all,
>
> All: OH HAI!
>
> > There's been some discussion about whom to reply to. I guess it's a
> > personal preference, and my personal preference is described in the
> > remainder of this email...
> >
> > If you want to reply to me, on-list, please reply to the list
> > only.
>
> You can ask, but it's mostly futile because most people's software
> doesn't handle mailing lists intelligently. Exceptions include mutt
> (which I use) and emacs GNUS. Both of those have a (configurable)
> ability to do list-mode replying, in which the MUA trims out
> non-mailing-list addresses, whenever the user does a group reply that
> includes a mailing list address. (I'm being a bit inexact. The
> details are IMO not worth detail-freaking to death.)

My claws-mail has a reply-to-list, which *usually* does the right thing
(it did for replies to you, Daniel Taylor, Anthony Stone and Hendrik
Boom. Some folks messages my Reply-to-list includes them. It tends to
happen on those mailing lists that badly handle that new "spam
prevention" technology that Yahoo started. And when I get one of those,
yes, I take the extra 1 second to eliminate the sender in my CC list.

>
[snip]
>
> Anyway, the reason your request is futile is that everyone responding
> to your public postings _except_ mutt and GNUS users, in order to
> make you happy, are being implicitly asked 'Every time you
> group-reply to one of my mailing list posts, please take the time to
> manually delete me as a direct-reply recipient from your draft post's
> headers. KTHXBYE!'

Personally I do that, and I don't think it's an imposition. I don't
want my listmates getting dups.

But what really strokes my fur the wrong way are these guys who reply
to me, and cc the list. Saaaaay whaaaaaat? Why?

SteveT

Steve Litt
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