On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 10:41:27 -0500 (EST) Ramon Salvania said:
: On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Ben Kosse wrote:
:
: > Please, **WATCH WHO YOU REPLY TO!** I keep receiving double replies,
: > it turns out that one goes to the fanfic list, the other to me. The cause
: > of this is that people are using the "reply-to all" function in some
: > e-mail programs. Avoid using this, unless you can then edit your reply
: > list and remove the original poster.
: > Basically, I'm saying please reply to the "list" or "the original
: > poster", not both.
:
: Hey, it is probably their *CHOICE*.
:
: Don't blow up on me here! ^_^
Nope, he's right. I had a similar problem until I changed to
Procmail to sort my mail.
As soon as WW dropped the reply-to: header, lots and lots of FFML
mesages would turn up between my personal mail, since my old
filter program could not recognize Cc-ed messages correctly.
Before the change it would happen only from time to time, when
people explicitly *wanted* to send their reply to the original
author by mail, too. But after the change, the amount of such
posts shot up dramatically, which leads me to believe that a lot
of people out there are either too lazy to edit their To: header
or have broken e-mail software that doesn't allow them to do so.
Getting double replies - one private, one Cc to the ML - doesn't
bother me, although I find it irritating sometimes when I reply to
a private post as if it was meant just for me and then realize
that it was *really* meant for the list.
Sebastian