On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:08 am, "Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:54:43PM -0500, Nick Smith wrote > > > seems like 50/50 i when i reply it wants to go to the sender > > instead of the list, i keep emailing people directly by mistake. > > with i high volume list like this i would think it would be set > > to reply-to-list, is it just me or are other people going > > through this as well? > > Long story. In the beginning, when you got an email from a mailing > list and replied to it, it went back to the list.
Not true, this has never been consistent. > Several years ago, > Chip Rosenthal launched a > whine at http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html blaming his > mistake on mailing list software, his birth sign, the phase of the moon, > etc, etc. The document doesn't whine that much, and presents a couple of very good points: 1. "Defaulting" to replying to a single user minimizes traffic and damage. An email can always be sent to more preople, it can't be unsent to someone. 2. Removing the original Reply-To field breaks it's intended usage and causes information loss. Of course, this is problem can be worked around in a couple of ways. I'm not sure astrology or astronomy ever played a large part in the document. The document also inspried at least two other document of similar size. The first was a rebuttal called reply-to-considered-helpful and the other was a counter-rebuttal of which I have forgetten the name. In any case, there is no real consensus, nor was there before Chip's tirade. I fall on the side of reply-to-considered-harmful, because of the information loss associated with the "old way" of doing things and I believe the reply-to-considered-harmful document supports it's points better than the reply-to-considered-helpful document. Also, I don't believe in doing things *wrong* simply because it makes it *easier* for some /proper/ subset of the population. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy PS: While I will read and, indeed, welcome replies, this is the last thing I will say on the matter. -- [email protected] mailing list
