On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 12:30 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> 
> There are still a lot of users, on both technical and non-technical
> lists, that use reply-to-all because the reply button sends a message
> to the author in stead of the list. There might be many reasons for
> them to do that (they're stupid, ignorant, don't know their MUA, use a
> MUA that doesn't provide a reply-to-list button, or something else I
> couldn't come up with within 10 seconds), but it's still common
> practise, and it has been annoying more experienced users.

Reply-to-list is a different issue, discussed in detail at 
http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html with some "sample users" and
pros and cons.

It's probably even more off-topic for this particular list :)

> Also, I can see good reasoning in the simple concept: when I received
> an e-mail from a private person and simply hit reply, I reply to the
> person. When I received an e-mail from a discussion-list and simply
> hit reply, I expect the reply to go to the discussion-list.

The message came *via* the list. Not *from* it.

Which, I think, is the point of much of this thread :)

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