On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:34:20PM -0400, James Vega wrote: > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:35:36PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > It's not that much harder to use "Reply All" or "List Reply" (if > > > your MUA supports it) when you want to reply to the list. > > > > I am not the OP. I have a naive question in this regard. If I hit > > "Reply All", then the To address will have sender's email and the CC > > field will have vim@vim.org . Does that mean that the recipient will > > receive the messages twice? Should I always take care to remove the To > > address field and just keep the CC field or is it fine to leave the To > > address as it is? > > It probably depends on the mailing list software, but in my opinion (and > what I've experienced on this list) leaving the sender's email there is > fine. The mailing list software used for Vim's lists seem to recognize > that a copy has already been sent to someone subscribed to the list and > doesn't send a duplicate message.
I often receive duplicates when people reply to me and to the list; maybe that is when my address is in the CC field and vim@vim.org is in the TO and not the other way around. It is probably less trouble for me to delete the duplicate copies I receive than for you to remove my address from the replies. Most convenient is if your e-mail program has a "reply to list" feature (e.g. L in mutt). I normally use this, but for this note I am using "reply to all" to test whether James really gets only one copy. HTH --Benji Fisher P.S. I had to manually enter James's address, since mutt is too clever for me.