Jon Delfin wrote:

>Easy enough to hit Reply All when wanting to respond to the list. It seems to
>me that a large number of responses to the list would be better directed to the
>original poster rather than to the list at large, and this will be facilitated
>if Reply defaults just to the poster.

As discussed elsewhere, "Reply to All" is not a universal feature.

As for the rest, I don't agree. Several of the messages on this list I've
found most interesting are those in which one person answers the direct
question of another, and I am merely eavesdropping. If threads don't remain
on the list, it rather defeats the point of having a list in the first
place, I think.  I know that plenty of private correspondence takes place
between list members as well, but I don't think that warrants making it the
default.  Among other things, the address for the Finale list is known to
all members, whereas the address of the individual poster may or may not be
munged.

Also, as I understand it, "Reply to All" will send a message to the
original poster AND the list.  I just read two messages from Dan Carno
replying to Johannes Gebauer which were addressed like that, presumably
because Dan used a "reply to all" feature.  Doesn't that mean that Johannes
received two copies of this message?  What advantage can there be to this?
Anyone who posts to the list is surely a subscriber, so there's no need for
the extra copy.  I know I would find it annoying if I received two copies
of the message every time someone answered one of my mine.

Anyway, this is all moot now, since the Reply-To header has been restored.

mdl


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