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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Samstag 03 Juli 2010, Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 03 July 2010 18:09:37 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 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@×××××.com>
> > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > > 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@×××××.com>
> > > References: <i0gk73$kj6$1@×××××××××××.org>
> > > <20100702095121.76fe5102@××××××××.fabnetwork>
> > > <201007031230.55562.michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
> > > In-Reply-To: <201007031230.55562.michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
> > > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > > Content-Type: Text/Plain;
> > >
> > >   charset="utf-8"
> > >
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > > Message-Id: <201007031337.53868.alan.mckinnon@×××××.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@l.g.o>
> > > List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@l.g.o>
> > > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@l.g.o>
> > > List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@l.g.o>
> > > List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
> > > X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > > Reply-to: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> > > ==================================================
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> This explains it!  No worries, I was thinking that something went wrong
> somewhere along the chain but couldn't figure out if it was my Kmail that
> has been doing this lately.

never had any problems like that with kmail.
Problems with stupid fingers - yeah, a lot.