= Replying to Messages in the Mailing List Archives
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Discussion of Spectrum takes place on
https://spectrum-os.org/participating.html#mailing-lists[mailing
lists].

Make sure to Reply All when replying to messages, so that the message
is sent to the mailing list and not just to the person you're
replying to.

== Getting a copy of a message

You may want to reply to a mailing list message that you don't have a
copy of in your mail client, because you aren't subscribed to the
list, or because you subscribed after the message was sent.

To do this, find the message you want to reply to in the
https://spectrum-os.org/lists/archives[public-inbox list archives],
click on the "reply" link at the bottom of the message, then click the
"mbox" link.  Save the result to a file, then open it in your mail
client.  This should import the message and allow you to Reply All to
it as normal.
