Subject: another pine question, forgot to ask

From: Rebecca and Abra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:52:32 -0500 (EST)

Hi, everyone! just forgot to ask one question.  In teh replying to a
message menu, what are the several options? like reply to all recipients,
reply to the from address or too address or whatever it says?  If you are
on a mailing list, how do you reply to the list?  Which option do you use?
Thanks!

Rebecca and Abra

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 01:28:36 -0600 (CST)

>From: Rebecca and Abra <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:52:32 -0500 (EST)

>In teh replying to a message menu, what are the several options? like reply to
>all recipients, reply to the from address or too address or whatever it says? 
>If you are on a mailing list, how do you reply to the list?  Which option do
>you use?

It depends.

If you are replying to a message that has a Reply-To header in it, pine will
give you a choice of using it or the From header. If you reply, and your name
is not in the To header, pine will ask if you want to reply to all recipients.
There are other variations when the Cc header exists.

Sometimes, it's not obvious to me which choice to use. If I wish to reply on
list, instead of only to the original author, I must make sure that the mailing
list submission address is in the To header. If it's not, I cancel the message,
and make the other choice.

When I send a reply to this mailing list, I choose "reply to all", but then I
must cut the original author's name, and cut and paste the Pine-Info from the
Cc header to the To header. I do the extra step as some MXs dislike messages
without To headers, and it's neater. For all I know, sendmail might create the
To header for me automatically if it's blank.