On 1 October 2014 15:33, Owen Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so used to Reply going to a sensible destination for all my other emails
There are two buttons: Reply and Reply All. There are two potential actions: reply just to the sender, and reply to everyone. Forget everything you think you know and try to match those two actions up with the best button to use for each. The problem is that you've been conditioned by other mailing lists to expect something different, and this may well be the only list that does it this way that you use, and it is your experience that is defining what you consider to be "sensible". Which is fair enough if your experience is global (or sufficiently broad) so that others have the same expectations. Very many lists work the same as this one though, so many of us are used to this behaviour rather than the "reply goes to list" behaviour. I suspect most of us have seen both options and wish there was one standard (and, frankly, not care which standard it was as long as it was global). But back in the real world... Now, given that confusion is a given, (a) which makes most sense when you take the various expectations based on past experience away, and (b) which does least harm when it goes wrong. For the reasons above, for (a) the behaviour here makes the most sense. For (b), is it better that a public email stays private, or that a private email gets made public? Surely the best option is one that never makes private email public, and for that reason the behaviour here wins that one too. But rest assured, *you* are not the problem. The issue is that various list administrators over the years have changed the settings to make things a bit easier for people who hit reply and wonder why it doesn't go to everybody. Those people still have problems in normal email when one is sent to a dozen people and whilst the reply is clearly intended for everyone it only goes to one person due to them hitting Reply. The second issue is that when some list admins make this hack, others didn't. The third is that through luck (or lack of it) you've mostly hit the hacked ones and learned to expect that behaviour. As an aside, if you've ever replied privately to someone with a problem, and included personal contact details in an offer to help fix the problem, only to find that the contact details were sent to everyone (I have...) you'll appreciate that "private by default" is a good idea, not a bad one. Mark -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
