Re: Replies on lists.php.net

On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 16:43 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote: > This is a long standing fight. Who is in the wrong, mail clients > that stupidly send double messages, or mail clients that stupidly > can't detect and omit double messages? Probably both, but the one > that is really wrong is whatever someone else is using and you're > not. Because humans. > > (Personally I'd blame the ones that lack reply-to-list, because > that's the easier feature to include.) > > Could we at least update that page to say "use the reply-to-list > feature if available, or reply-all if not"? Or something like > that? Because yeah, I'm also really sick of getting 2 copies of > every email sent to every thread I ever touch. :-) > I use the reply-to-all feature purposely (well, now I didn't :-D) * I don't know if the sender is subscribed (with well-known names not a problem, but not every sending a mail is necessarily subscribed) * I don't know if everybody on the CC line i subscribed (be it an individual or another list) * As a recipient I have a different attention to a mail in the mailing list folder (sorted by list-id headers) and the onein my inbox This affects both responses and somebody CC'ing me johannes