[aklug] Re: Small note: duplicate e-mails

I did a little more thinking on it. I think I understand, at least in
part, why it's set up this way.

A lot of people that post to a 'list', only return to the list when they
realize there is a reply to their personal post. Often newbies looking
anywhere they can find for help and are posting stuff on multiple places
about their problem. If they don't get something back, they never return
and forget about the 'list'.

Our list gets used as much for social interaction as for help which can
make the double replies annoying. Maybe someone can figure out how we
can have our cake and eat it too.

As to who gets the reply and who gets cc'd is probably mostly a matter
of semantics, but if the newbie is the CC and people only hit reply
instead of reply-all the newbie will probably never know there was a
reply and just go away. When we know someone has replied to our post, we
have incentive to come back and join in.

I'm not certain if this is what was explained to me at the time or not,
but I was new to both Linux and mailing lists at the time. I don't think
I would have followed this logic at that time either.

Jim G

James Zuelow wrote:
> =20
> I believe that this is a configuration option in Ecartis.
>
> When the list re-sends the e-mail, it can (and does) change headers.
> One of those changes is setting "reply-to" for the message.
>
> For example IIRC both AKLUG and Juneau-LUG are Ecartis lists. AKLUG is
> set to reply to the original sender, Juneau-LUG is set to reply to the
> list.
>
> (This discussion has come up multiple times on AKLUG, and like Jim I
> can't remember the reason it's set that way either.)
>
> James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
> Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf
> Of Richard Moore
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:43 PM
> Cc: aklug mailing list
> Subject: [aklug] Re: Small note: duplicate e-mails
>
> There is actually no way of changing the fact that all the list does is
> keep
> an archive of the email, and then forward the email, using the senders
> address as the sender field. However there might be a way to go through
> the
> program and change the sender, because I do know there are some mail
> clients, that allow you to change the sender field. Ours either cannot
> change or whoever set it up left it as default, which would be the
> sender
> being equal to the sender or originally sent the email.
> Richard
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> This is because, when we choose 'reply-all' it replies to both the
>>
> list
>
>> and the sender. If you look closely, you should see that the reply is
>>
> to
>
>> you and it's the list that's cc'd. Not the other way around.
>>
>> If we only choose reply, it replies to the sender only and effectively
>> takes the discussion 'off-list'. Sometimes I remember to change this
>>
> on
>
>> the reply, I usually don't.
>>
>> It has to do with the way the list works, not our individual mail
>>
> clients.
>
>> Someone explained the logic of this to me at one time, I don't
>>
> remember
>
>> what it was off-hand. If I remember correctly, I didn't exactly follow
>> it either. That probably why I can't remember. Clear as mud? :-)
>>
>> Jim G
>>
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