Re: A whole lot of e-mails

[Tim McNamara]

On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:

> Fellow Lilyponders:
>  
> I recently joined this list serve. Since then I have received not only other 
> members inquiries but also multiple responses to each of their inquiries.
>  
> Is this the usual practice?

Well, yes.  The Reply-To header is set so that replies go to the sender rather 
than the list, so one must "reply all" to include the list which results in 
some people getting two copies of the e-mail- one from the sender and one from 
the mailing list.  The list owners want replies sent to the list so that the 
threads are complete, but also want to have the Reply-To header set to reply to 
individuals rather than the list.  This is the only mailing list I am on that 
operates this way; I find the logic a bit confusing and the practice somewhat 
tedious but it is what it is.  List owners can operate their lists anyway they 
want.

My solution is to reply by trying to remember to replace the individual's 
e-mail address with the list's e-mail address, thereby resulting in only one 
message going to the individual.  I find this less confusing to me when I am 
the recipient.