On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 06:06:51AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:48:19 +0100, Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Why? Isn't the point of replying to a mailing list to send the response
> > > to the sender, which is the list?
> >
> > Yes, which is why the correct response for the mailing list software
> > is to send replies to the list and not to the author of the message
> > being replied to.
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > I don't think so. I think that software which sends 2 copies is
> > broken unless the author has set the 'Mail-Followup-To:' header to
> > specifically request a direct reply.
> >
> > There are two things which I find annoying about mailing lists
> > (neither of which are the fault of the list server/owner). The first
> > is when, having posted, the author of the message receives a number of
> > non-delivery notifications.
>
> Sorry. I really haven't been reading this thread so I'll likely step
> into something, but let me make one or two points that have probably
> already been made:
>
> 1) The administration of this list has changed. I have messages from
> last year here in my GMail account. If I hit reply-all on those
> message one copy goes to the list and one copy goes to the sender.
> It's not my client that's changed it's the way the messages are being
> sent.
>
> 2) GMail understands that if I get two identical copies of the same
> message, one addressed to me and one addressed to the list then it
> apparently only keeps one copy. I had no problems with that. I
> supposed other clients might not have been so kind.
>
> 3) From my POV [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] are different users. I assume that the
> system WANTS me to reply to them all. why should I be responsible to
> deciding which
They are not, they are the same as specified in the List-Post header.
'Reply to List' function usually takes care of this (but I bet that gmail
hasn't it). Anyway this will change once the migration is complete and
hopefully
the old behaviour will be restored (still I don't think the current setup is
some "fault" in how the mailing list is configured).
Cheers
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