Re: [Evolution] Using this mailing list?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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
> to a message, the primary To address ends up being the person who
> responded with CC containing the mailing list address.

What is Group Reply? There is Reply to Sender, Reply to All and Reply to
List. There is no Group Reply. (I'm assuming you mean on Evo 3.x since
you don't say).

> 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 has been discussed at enormous length in the past. Check the list
archives about a year ago for the thread "Reply for list messages should
go back to the list", also
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624204. It even led to
increased flexibility in Reply options when applied to lists.

poc