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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:34:17 -0400
From:      Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   List friendliness
Message-ID:  <20030704133417.GA48070@mail.it.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20030702225923.GA57410@dds.nl>
References:  <20030702210018.GA55984@dds.nl> <20030702211401.45135.qmail@web12606.mail.yahoo.com> <20030702225923.GA57410@dds.nl>

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Alex,

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:59:23AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> 
> I feel the following things are helpfull sending to 
> these list:
> 1. Do send mail like this with a cc to the orginal list.
>    Others can learn from our exange of information.

You can encourage people to reply back to the list by including a
Reply-To line in your headers, as I've done with this message.  Some
list software will filter the header, but a Reply-To in the copy of the
message that's sent directly to someone will probably be respected by
their mail client.

Since you use mutt, you might find the following .muttrc lines helpful:

  lists freebsd-questions freebsd-current freebsd-chat
  send-hook questions@freebsd 'my_hdr Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
  send-hook current@freebsd   'my_hdr Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org'
  send-hook chat@freebsd      'my_hdr Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org'
  ... etc.

This way, you can use the 'L' key to follow up to the list, the 'g' key
to do a group-reply, or the 'r' key to reply just to the sender, and
your headers will include the custom Reply-To for 'L' and 'g'.

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  Paul Chvostek                                             <paul@it.ca>
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