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Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

Kretzer, Jason R (Big Sandy) wrote:


It is this very reason that I use 'Reply All' to respond to list emails.
Then I can pick and choose which addresses to send it to.  You can't cry
foul when you just hit reply and ASSUME it goes where you want.  You
have to pay attention to what you are doing.

-Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Dowland [mailto:jon@dowland.name] On Behalf Of Jon Dowland
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:54 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies
go to author or to list?

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:56:20PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:

debian users:

I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that
my reply went to the message author and not to the list.  It is my
understanding that the people in charge of this list think that his
behavior is a feature, not a bug.  I disagree.


You clearly don't know why Reply-To isn't set, so why not google the
list archives and find out? Same goes for every self-confessed newbie
who replied "Yes".
No other mailing lists I've ever subscribed to has worked in this ludicrous way. Being a newbie has nothing to do with it. Of course, the common response "just hit "Reply-All" and delete the poster from the outgoing list" will alway work, but it would be far better applied to those wanting to reply to the poster when obviously the great majority of replies are required to go to the list.
So you can cry foul in the case of list servers configured this way, just as you can cry foul when people suddenly and stupidly top-post in the middle of an otherwise properly structured thread.
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