On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:15 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote:
At the moment, I'm used to just clicking the Reply button to send to the list... however, on most lists that I participate in, Reply-To is left alone, so I'm normally in the habit of clicking Reply-To-All. Seeing as I normally have to consciously think *click Reply, not RTA*, I for one certainly won't miss not having Reply-to-All.
Reply-to-All is evil. You should be using Reply-to-List. I know that I sure don't need to get the same email both on and off-list. Off-list emails should be reserved only for when you explicitly do not want to send to the list and only to the original email's author.
Well... someone should tell the Thunderbird people that... I'm still hunting for the "Reply To List" button, and I've been looking for months.
Actually, some mailing list managers actually are intelligent enough to not forward on an email if you're CC'ed. (Mailman comes to mind) I agree, having messages sent in duplicate can be annoying, but its not that hard to read one and delete the other. ;-)
Besides, normally I filter out the user's email address if I know they're subscribed.
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