Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
As Sean mentions, it's also reasonable to use a wide reply.
A word of caution about wide replies and mailman:
Mailman has an option to "Avoid duplicate copies of messages", which
is usually enabled by default. If you reply to the user as well as the
list, any user who has left that option enabled won't get a copy from
the listserv.
This fails to take account of the fact that being sent a copy isn't
necessarily the same as receiving one, particularly given the
increasing prevalence of aggressive spam filters.
[I get bitten by this occasionally; I send mail directly from my ADSL
line rather than via my ISP's SMTP server. A small number of ISPs
classify the (static) IP address as a "dial-up" connection.]
--
Glynn Clements <glynn(a)gclements.plus.com>
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