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1.1     ! root        1: .ip \fBReply\fP
        !             2: Note the capital R in the name.
        !             3: Frame a reply to a one or more messages.
        !             4: The reply (or replies if you are using this on multiple messages)
        !             5: will be sent ONLY to the person who sent you the message
        !             6: (respectively, the set of people who sent the messages you are
        !             7: replying to).
        !             8: You can
        !             9: add people using the
        !            10: .b ~t
        !            11: and
        !            12: .b ~c
        !            13: tilde escapes.  The subject in your reply is formed by prefacing the
        !            14: subject in the original message with
        !            15: .q "Re:"
        !            16: unless it already began thus.
        !            17: If the original message included a
        !            18: .q "reply-to"
        !            19: header field, the reply will go
        !            20: .i only
        !            21: to the recipient named by
        !            22: .q "reply-to."
        !            23: You type in your message using the same conventions available to you
        !            24: through the
        !            25: .b mail
        !            26: command.
        !            27: The
        !            28: .b Reply
        !            29: command is especially useful for replying to messages that were sent
        !            30: to enormous distribution groups when you really just want to
        !            31: send a message to the originator.  Use it often.

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