Re: Why replies are often sent to sender - was Re: KDE freezing

[Barney Wrightson <barney.wrightson@dsto.defence.gov.au>]

Paul Johnson wrote:
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> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Thanks,
  I'm not sure I agree with the argument that reply-to-all fixes the 
problem - for the exact reason that the complaint was made, most people 
on the list would prefer not to get two copies of the reply. (although 
chopping them from the list is easier than adding them I suppose - and 
it does fix my problem of mailing to the wrong list. I forgot to do it 
again this time though).
The principle of least surprise doesn't hold all the time either, I see 
list traffic as coming from the list rather than being sent directly to 
me (especially as it gets shoved into a separate folder).
I do agree that minimal munging is a good convention though.

Barney.