Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:37:36 Mick wrote:
> > Sometimes I receive a personal email response to a message that I have
> > posted to the list.  This seems to happen because the person that kindly
> > responded has for some reason cc'd me in the reply.  If I try to reply to
> > it the post will not go to the list, but the person that emailed me. 
> > Pressing 'l' in kmail just brings up an empty to field.  This seems to
> > happen only with some replies.  Will keep an eye out for it to see if it
> > is consistent.
> 
> OK, just got this baby from Alan:
> ==================================================
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-
> 
> >3.6.4 update.
> 
> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 13:37:53 +0200
> User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.34-ck-r1; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; )
> Cc: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
> References: <i0gk73$kj6$1@dough.gmane.org> 
> <20100702095121.76fe5102@core2duo.fabnetwork> 
> <201007031230.55562.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
> In-Reply-To: <201007031230.55562.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: Text/Plain;
>   charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Message-Id: <201007031337.53868.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> Status: R
> X-Status: N
> X-KMail-EncryptionState:  
> X-KMail-SignatureState:  
> X-KMail-MDN-Sent:  
> ==================================================
> 
> and amidst the headers there's no usual mailing list IDs et al, as is
> usually  the case:
> ==================================================
> List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> ==================================================
> 
> So, when I enter "l" the response is set directly to Alan, instead of
> Gentoo  Users M/L.
> 
> Alan, any idea why this is so?  Do you intentionally copy me in your
> responses  to the list?

Two things happened here on my end:

My kmail filters didn't kick in (kmail does that to me sometimes) so the mail 
I replied to was in my inbox, not the gentoo-user folder where it should have 
been. The list folder is the one that knows it contains a list not the inbox.

I was also dealing with a bunch of work mail as the same time and with those I 
reply to all.

When I replied, I hit "A" without thinking and only saw it after I pressed 
Ctrl-Enter to send. So my bad, my screw-up.




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