Re: A whole lot of e-mails

[Nick Payne]

On 13/10/12 15:25, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:38:13PM -0500, Tim McNamara wrote:
>>> Well, yes.  The Reply-To header is set so that replies go to the
>>> sender rather than the list, so one must "reply all" to include
>>> the list which results in some people getting two copies of the
>>> e-mail- one from the sender and one from the mailing list.
>> This is only true if you enable the "send me multiple copies" in
>> your mailing list preferences.  I recommend turning that off so
>> that you only get one copy of each email.
> Interesting!  This is an option previously unknown to me.  I don't recall 
> ever setting any mailing list  preferences or seeing anywhere to have that 
> option.  Not sure how that would work, since one e-mail is sent direct and 
> the other from the Lilypond list server.  Does the list server detect whether 
> the To: header was set to a list member?

When you signed up to the mailing list, you should have received a
"Welcome to the mailing list" e-mail, which included the link to the
subscription page where you can change this setting, and also the
password you used when joining (which you need to change your settings).

Nick