On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:37:39 -0400 Ric Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm forever replying to sender as an individual, instead of the > group-sender by hitting "reply". Someone hinted that this was some old > flame war, etc. Out of PURE ignorance and being fairly new to this > provenance, is there a reason behind it that makes sense? > > The various Debian lists are the only lists I've encountered since the > days of Slackware floppy installs that acts in this fashion hitting > reply, which replies to individual sender instead of the group-sender. > > I'd just like to be less ignorant. Thanks, in advance, for any reasoned > replies. Ric As the GNU page notes, it is indeed a religious issue: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html https://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html Celejar _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
