Carbon Copies (CC's)

[Matthias Andree]

Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> writes:

> Now *this* is why I think the guy who wrote "Reply-To Munging Considered
> Harmful" is full of it.  If replies aren't set to go back to the list,
> people just hit "group reply", and sends a message to the author, cc'ed to
> the list and an ever growing list of other people on the cc list from
> previous group replies.  But when it came to a vote on this list, I was
> shouted down, so learn to live with duplicate messages, or screen them out
> with procmail and formail.

That's exactly the problem Mail-Followup-To: strives to fix -- or "List
Reply" buttons in mail user agents. (Some will also use group reply to mean
list reply when they see list headers.)

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Matthias Andree