Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I think the problem is "reply all". Even your message was "To: @robin.gentoo.org", with "Reply-to: @gentoo.org", so if I had hit reply-all in thunderbird instead of reply, two copies would have gone out.
My guess is mail clients are doing the right thing, but people get in the habit of using reply-all.
I disagree. Reply to all is (normally) the correct way of sending a
reply to a mailing list.
Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response to the sender, which is the list?
Sending a private email to the poster of the message should be the exception, not the rule (because then all the helpful information in the response is lost to the list), in which case, having to do something 'extraordinary' to send such a private email, like using 'reply to all' for lists that don't mung the header and removing the list address to leave only the private address, or, for those lists that do mung the header , right-clicking the name header (in the case of Thunderbird) and choosing "Compose Mail To"), makes much more sense.
I'm not meaning to drag this 'argument' back into the spotlight again, I just really want to know why so many people think it makes "better" sense to have subscribers to a mailing list receive two replies if the respondent is responding to a post by the receiver.
Personally, I find that incredibly annoying. There are a couple of lists that I'm subscribed to that require the "Reply to All" behaviour to respond to the list, and half the time (if the responder used 'Reply to All' and didn't clean the header fields up, which many people don't bother to do) I get double replies to my posts (meaning I have to manually throw one out), and the other half of the time I have to forward responses back to the list (because the responder hit 'Reply' so the reply came only to me, and not to the list at all).
I really don't see how the setup you describe benefits me the subscriber in any way whatsoever, so if someone can see what I don't, please, please, enlighten me.
Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
