[GreenKeys] Replying to list WAS Re: Need ASR33 repair help, in Ann Arbor MI

[Chris Elmquist]

On Saturday (11/29/2014 at 05:41AM +1100), Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> 
> > It works the right way now!!!  Reply-All == Group Reply and the headers 
> > are properly configured to make that work.
> > 
> > This is one of the few lists that actually does it correctly!
> 
> Not from where I'm sitting...  Here are the original headers:
> 
>   From: Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com>
>   To: gil <gil at baudot.net>
>   Cc: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list does not set Reply-To (it is an option in Mailman), so "Reply" 
> goes only to the sender, whereas "Replay All" (the default in most if not 
> all clients, unfortunately), would go to all of the above, resulting in 
> senders getting their own personal copies as well as the list copy.  
> These can be filtered out by client software, but they shouldn't need to 
> be.

The list does not set a Reply-To: in the RFC2822 headers but a number
of posters are sending it in their headers, which most likely changes
the behavior of the MUA at the other end.

Your message (and mine before it) do not have Reply-To: headers while
the one from Gil and WA5CAB and a few others going back do each have
a Reply-To: header.

When I "Reply" to Gil's message (using Mutt), it generates a message
only to Gil, with no Cc:

	To: gil <gil at baudot.net>

When I do a "Group Reply" to Gil's message, it generates a message,

	To: gil <gil at baudot.net>

and "Cc:",

	Cc: "drlegendre ." <drlegendre at gmail.com>,
	Teletypeparts <teletypeparts at aol.com>,
	GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net

which were all of the previous responders to the thread and the list.

When I do a "Reply" to your message (which has no Reply-To: in
the RFC2822 headers), I generate,

	To: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>

with no Cc:.

And when I do "Group Reply" to your message, I generate,

      To: Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>
      Cc: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>

> I edited the headers to make the reply go only to the list; had there been 
> people there who weren't on the list then I would've Cc'd them as a 
> courtesy.

I don't edit any headers ever and I simply choose a personal reply with
"Reply" and a group reply with "Group Reply".  I'm having a hard time
thinking of a better way for it to work.

I have zero experience with any Windows MUAs or in fact any graphical
MUAs on Mac or Linux/Unix so it's entirely possible that clicking and
scrolling through things really changes the outcome.

> I also trim replies, and never top-post.

And for that, you are a hero.

-- 
Chris Elmquist NØJCF