Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] unsubscribe

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On 10/13/06, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > Hi - you actually sent this to the mailing list (so, about 70 people,
> > only one of which could do anything for you ;^) ... hint: he's writing
> > to you now)
>
> Oops!  And Mutt confused me, making me think I was replying _only_ to
> them.  Sorry for the noise!

This is one reason why many mailing lists are configured to have
replies go to the sender. The "reply to all" or "group reply" feature
is used to send mail to the list. The other reason is that replying
to the sender becomes easy; with tuxpaint-devel I have to do a
group reply and then manually edit the list of recipients.

See the linux-kernel mailing list for a popular example of a
mailing list that doesn't force a reply to the list.

Mail to you seems to be even worse. Group reply seems to send
two copies to the list and none directly to you.