Date   : Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:46:52 -0600
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Mailing list headers (was: BBC Master 128 problem)

Andrew Benham wrote:
> so, assuming one knows how to use ones email client, one can use
> "Reply to all" rather than "Reply to sender" to send the email
> reply to the list.

Is Thunderbird broken in this regard, then? "reply to" goes to the individual. 
"reply to all" goes to the individual in the "to:" field, and the list in the 
"cc:" field. In other words, the message *still* needs editing to remove the 
individual [1] and the change the "cc" to a "to" [2]. I'd be surprised that 
one of the most popular modern mail clients didn't follow the spec, but it's 
possible.

[1] There's absolutely zero point in sending a message to an individual when 
they're subscribed to the list and hence going to see it anyway - that's just 
a waste.

[2] Sending a message with no "to:" field and just a "cc:" seems to work, but 
I'm surprised it doesn't fall foul of the relevant RFC and so is in no way 
guaranteed.


Evolution used to do something differently somehow - it's been a couple of 
years since I've used it, but I recall it had a magic "reply to list" option 
as well as the usual reply / reply-to. That *used* to work with this list and 
do the intended thing, but stopped (for reasons unknown) at some point prior 
to my switching email clients.