1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
11:52 p.m.
[1] If I hit reply-all to an email from a list, it replies to the list and the original poster (OP). If someone else then hits reply-all to that email, it gets sent to me, the OP, and the list. If someone else then hits reply-all to that email, it gets to sent to the second responder, me, the OP, and the list, etc. While some MDAs are smart enough to suppress duplicate delivery, a lot of them arent.
Recent mailman is smart enough to not deliver the duplicates, if the email address is subscribed to teh mailing list.