Alan Gauld said unto the world upon 07/08/06 04:43 PM: >> this list is setup to send to the poster by default. I made the >> mistake of doing such a thing earlier myself. >> I know this is a huge item of contention, but do people favor having >> the default be to send replies to the list? > > OK, I've got to ask. This comes up every so often and I really > don't understand it. > > I've been on the internet for over 20 years now and every mail > tool/newreader I've ever used has (at least) two reply options: > 1) Reply = reply to the original sender > 2) Reply All = reply to everyone > > The same principle has always worked for all of the mailing lists > I've ever been on. > > So why do people seem to expect some other kind of response? > Are there mail clients out there that don't offer a Reply All option? > Why would anyone want a mailing list that didn't offer two options, > one for private reply and the other to include everyone? > > I don't understand why this seems to come as a surprise? > What am I missing?
Hi all, Alan, I think you are judging based on technical lists, no? In my experience, the further from computing-technical the domain of a mailing list, the more likely it is to be set up with a munged `reply to' header. It could be worse; there is a photography list I've been occasionally on for a decade or so where the list-denizens are steadfast in their reply to list preference and have to cope with 2-3 ``How do I subscribers?'' emails a week. (This despite instructions being provided in the footer of each and every message posted on the list.) Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
