On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>
> Having thought about this problem for some time I think I've settled on
> the solution of promoting a MUA solution that involves having the user
> identify to the MUA which mail is from a list they subscribe to, and to
> have the normall "reply" or "followup" function to reply to the list by
> default. Then it'll just be a matter of training users not to use the
> "reply-all" function unless the *really* mean it. This is trivial to do
> as a user extension for my own mailer, but probably not so easy for
> others, and probably impossible for semi-commercial ones like Netscape.
>
Its up to the sender, if they don't want a direct reply they should
set the reply to as the above author did.
If you don't like to receive a personal copy but can't be bothered to
set the reply-to field use a filter such as procmail to strip out
duplicates.
--Sean
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