I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I see From: abc@...2896... and To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net, then Reply All gets both. If I see, From: joeabc@...2896... and To: my e-mail address (or any personal e-address), then Reply All only goes to the From e-address, which means I have to fill in the e-address for this mail list. Apparently, some people from outside using a mail program like Thunderbird. How do I get two for price of one, so to speak?
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2009/12/7 Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@...209...>:
I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python
lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I
see From: abc@...2896... and To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net,
then Reply All gets both. If I see, From: joeabc@...2896... and To: my
e-mail address (or any personal e-address), then Reply All only goes to
the From e-address, which means I have to fill in the e-address for this
mail list. Apparently, some people from outside using a mail program
like Thunderbird. How do I get two for price of one, so to speak?
The default "Reply To" on this list is set to go to the original
poster. It's a setting in the mailing list software, not anyone's
e-mail client.
If you post a question and someone responds using "Reply To", then
their response will go directly to you. If they respond using "Reply
To All" (as I have here) then the e-mail is copied to the list address
as well.
The moral? Always use "Reply To", and hope everyone else remembers to
do so as well 
Cheers,
Scott
Scott Sinclair wrote:
2009/12/7 Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@...209...>:
I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python
lists. It appears to be a difference between the way people post. If I
see From: abc@...2896... and To: matplotlib-users-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@...1455...,
then Reply All gets both. If I see, From: joeabc@...2896... and To: my
e-mail address (or any personal e-address), then Reply All only goes to
the From e-address, which means I have to fill in the e-address for this
mail list. Apparently, some people from outside using a mail program
like Thunderbird. How do I get two for price of one, so to speak?
The default "Reply To" on this list is set to go to the original
poster. It's a setting in the mailing list software, not anyone's
e-mail client.
If you post a question and someone responds using "Reply To", then
their response will go directly to you. If they respond using "Reply
To All" (as I have here) then the e-mail is copied to the list address
as well.
The moral? Always use "Reply To", and hope everyone else remembers to
do so as well
Did you mean "Reply All"?
Some of us would appreciate it if people just responded to the list and not including our individual addresses at all. With very rare exceptions, everyone who posts is already on the list. I subscribe to the list via the GMane NNTP interface and hate receiving private-looking (hence urgent-looking) replies in my inbox.
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2009/12/8 Robert Kern <robert.kern@...287...>:
Scott Sinclair wrote:
2009/12/7 Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview@...209...>:
I see a variance with replying to a post on this list and other Python
The moral? Always use "Reply To", and hope everyone else remembers to
do so as well
Did you mean "Reply All"?
Yes. Thanks for spotting that. Slip of the brain.
Cheers,
Scott