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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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