Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

Erik Christiansen dvalin at internode.on.net
Fri Nov 30 11:54:57 UTC 2018


On 30.11.18 01:34, Francesco Ariis wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:41:12PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > I am curious to know in what context "someone" felt it would make a
> > difference.
> 
> I suspect work related setting. Cc: is indeed "being kept in the loop"
> while To: is "addressed specifically".
> 
> I have never noticed mutt behaviour, but the above seems a sensible
> behaviour.

+1

Spontaneous increase of entropy isn't usually user-friendly. If I hadn't
retired ten years ago, it'd make more of a difference here, but letting
the CC list know they can leave the message on the back burner is
fractionally as important as signalling the TO recipients that they
can't.

Erik


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