Recipient list on FreeBSD mailing lists

[Parv]

in message <1141197872.28549.3.camel at neuromancer.home.net>, wrote Ow
Mun Heng thusly...
>
> PS : why is it that this list To's the replies directly to the
> person answering and cc's the list instead of To'ing the list
> only??

I notice the same query in one of your previous messages; thought
that by now you would have got a response.  It seems that is not
the case, so ...

  The guideline is to copy both the OP and the list as not everybody
  who posts a message is subscribed.


See also point 6 ...

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html#AEN218


I personally would delete an address if the owner of that address
explicitly requests not to send him/her a copy.

Personal judgment about the recipient list & behaviour of mail
clients also affect the mail headers.  For an example of (modifying)
mail client (behaviour wrt mailing lists), see mutt manual and read
the sections containing "mail-followup" ...

  http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.txt


  - Parv

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