[H-GEN] Good practice and home networking

[bjf at bjf.id.au]

Hi Greg, all and sundry,

Quoting Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>:

>> To: general at humbug.org.au, Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net>
>> Cc: general at humbug.org.au
>> Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Good practice and home networking
>
> Ben,
>
> If we're talking good practice, it might be worth trying a bit of that
> in the operation or setup of your email software.  The message to which
> you replied with the above headers had an important header:
>
>   Reply-To: general at humbug.org.au
>
> It was there for a reason.  But somehow you or your email software
> managed to reply twice to the list plus one to me for good measure.  One
> copy for the list would have been fine.  And no extra copy for me would
> have been extra fine since I explicitly requested that any replies go to
> the list only.
>
> Perhaps you could review your setup and/or usage of your email software?

This was due purely to operator error.

I use Horde much of the time (yes I know, rubbish PHP teenage-ware),  
however, it does give users options to 'reply', 'reply to all', and  
'reply to list'.  I was careless and hit 'reply to all' instead of  
'reply to list' (which uses the list reply-to only), and didn't  
realize my mistake until after I hit Send.  I decided at the time not  
to compound the error by advertising my mistake by posting a  
preemptive mea culpa to the mailing list.

Sorry about that!

Cheers,

Ben.