Re: Two copies of email when cc-ed in mailing lists

Rene Kita <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mutt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Dec 04, 2024 at 08:59:18PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 09:05:19AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
[...]
> > Adding “Reply-To: $address_of_the_list” is a more reliable way of doing
> > it. Most mailing-list software I know do it by default, and I have
> > chosen to do it myself for those that do not.
> 
> The war is probably long over, and you're probably right that it's the
> least annoying thing, especially for non-technical lists, but seeing
> this brought me back to the days when I actually used mailing lists
> routinely, and people posting this article was common:
> 
> https://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> One thing is that doing this does make it more difficult for someone to
> reply to you off-list should they want / need to.

I wonder if the argument that modern MUAs make it easy to choose between
'reply' and 'group reply'/'reply all' still holds.
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