On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:04, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > Are you getting messages two times from everyone? Or just people that > > reply to you? Is it possible they are replying to all which would > > include a message to you and to the list? Thereby you receive two > > emails? > > 'Reply-to-all' has been the normal way to respond to internet mailing > list messages since they were invented. Some lists insert a Reply-To: > with the list address which is probably reasonable on a technical > list but is controversial on others where a plain 'reply' is expected > to be private and accidentally directing this to the list instead could > be embarrassing or worse. If you aren't interested enough in a topic > to put up with an extra copy of responses, why post about it at all? > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > > Isn't the "reply to all" or "reply" option set in each user's preferences for the list?