On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 09:48 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
It depends on the mailing list settings. There is a per user setting on many mailing lists of "Avoid duplicate messages". With that you don't receive the list copy if you are listed in the To: or Cc: headers. Which is good, because you don't get two copies; but it's bad because the *only* copy you receive doesn't have the list headers on it, which breaks filtering and "Reply to list". And if the list is moderated for non-subscribers (or whatever), then you receive, and possibly reply to, a message before the rest of the list sees it. That's why I dislike being directly sent replies to mailing list posts. It breaks things for me; it makes things difficult for me. And I can explicitly say I don't want it to happen until I'm blue in the face, but it won't make any difference to anything, people will still keep doing what they think is "the only way it should be done" - or more likely what is most convenient for them.
FWIW I've added you as another use case in http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html Thank you for helping me to refine it. In summary, then: If you reply-to-all, then some people will get a second copy of the list message, which might annoy them a tiny bit. But if it does, it's usually trivial for them to tell the list software not to send them a copy when they're already in the To: or Cc: headers. If they do *that* then they might receive some "list" traffic in their INBOX instead of the list folder. Which they can also trivially fix by changing their filters to match any messages which are To: or Cc: the list even when they didn't actually come via the list (which is traditionally considered a false positive but in this case is exactly what they want). On the other hand, if you *don't* reply-to-all, and restrict your reply to only the one list that you happened to receive the mail from, then you may cut all kind of other people out of the discussion entirely. And there's nothing at all they can do about that. There, is that a reasonable summary? -- dwmw2
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