Re: [Evolution] Using this mailing list?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 07:55 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
> If using evolution as my mail agent, and I choose Group Reply to respond

I assume "Group Reply" means Ctrl+L [aka "Reply to List"].

> to a message, the primary To address ends up being the person who
> responded with CC containing the mailing list address.  With most other
> mailing lists, it only goes to the group.   Of course, it then is sent
> to those who subscribe, so perhaps it doesn't make any difference.  But,
> in the past some people have objected to the mail seemingly being
> directed privately to them.

This is probably *other* people replying to the list either incorrectly
or with inferior user agents;  when *they* Reply-To-All to respond to a
list you will frequently end up with the list address in the CC: when
you reply to their borked reply.  Listserv software is typically [for
good reason] hesitant to do a great deal of message mangling [to fix or
replace headers, for example].

Yes, it is 2011, and you'd imagine that most people knew how to use
e-mail at this point -- you'd be wrong.

I always use Ctrl+L to respond to a list message and just Ctrl-X +
Ctrl-V [cut-n-paste] to fix it when it is borked.  But I don't have any
issues with someone who just hits Ctrl+L and goes with it.  On mobile
devices [like K-9 <http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/> on Android] it is
just too hard to fix.