For me, it was the fact that about a dozen forums I frequent ALL used the reply button to reply to the group. A number of times I have forgotten which forum I was on, and inadvertently made a reply to an individual, when I actually intended the response to the group. For me, it is just more comfortable to reply to the group, unless I want to reply individually. Something about old dogs and new tricks.
In [email protected], "Ed Burkhead" <e...@...> wrote: > > > Hartmut wrote: > > I understand that you were trying to eliminate double > > messages when one would hit reply all. Fine. It is a bit > > more work for individual replies, but hey if the majority > > prefers to do so, I am for it. > > Hartmut, > > We'll see how the majority feels after a week's trial. > > I suspect that most members only hit reply occasionally, then to reply to > the forum. It's the most prolific contributors like you, me, John Cooper, > Lynn Nelson and many others who are most affected by this change as we are > the ones most likely to reply to the individual. > > Let's see how it goes. > > Ed >
