Re: [K12OSN] MailList Question

Kirk Rheinlander (kirk@kpj2.com)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 15:06:29 -0600 

My primary machines (because I work as a corporate IT consultant) is a 
Windows laptop - hence the Eudora - but it writes standard UNIX mailboxes, 
so I go back and forth from KMail.

Still, the duplicates messages is a symptom that has only appeared since 
the maillist moved over to RedHat. It worked fine out of Riverdale.....

Kirk

At 02:43 PM 4/15/2002, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> > Kirk Rheinlander 
> > Sent by: k12osn-admin@redhat.com
> > 2002-04-15 08:35 AM
> >
> > Am I the only one that is observing this phenomena?
> >
> > I am reading responses to email that I have not seen (I think!) - at least
> >
> > there are "embedded includes" that are not from my list of emails.....
> >
> > A [very] little investigation.....
> > Now that the list is at RedHat, when you REPLY - you only reply to the
> > sender and NOT the list (or at least that is my observed situation). I
> > have
> > to do a "REPLY TO ALL" to get the message back to the list, and then it
> > duplicates messages to sender AND list - unless I manually change the
> > address field. I have noticed a marked increase in redundant messages when
> >
> > someone replies to me - I get 2 copies.....
> >
> > Any suggestions??
> > Kirk
>
>On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:07:10AM -0600, jgonzalez@proligo.com wrote:
> > Me, too !!  On the old list, the reply-to was the list server.  Now the
> > reply-to is the individual.  If Red Hat could change the reply-to, to be
> > the list address, it would alleviate duplicate messages and the full
> > discussions can be followed.  If there is a private discussion, then the
> > message can be sent only to the individual.
>
>[rearranged]
>
>[Please add you comments below the OP, and trim uncommented parts.]
>
>This is a mailing list FAQ, see
>http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/faq/maillist.html#munge_reply-to
>
>Kirk, you could set the Mail-Followup-To header of your own mails
>pointing to the list. That way decent MUAs that respect the
>Mail-Followup-To will not send copies directly to you. Since some
>people use not-so-respectful MUAs, that will not eliminate the problem
>though, so some filtering on your part is unavoidable. Procmail is
>probably the most commonly used tool for this (in *nix land, that is,
>you seem to use Eudora for MS Windows ;-)
>
>--
>
>Hans Ekbrand
>
>
>
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