>> It's impolite to send the same person two copies of the same message, >> and if they weren't subscribed to the list, then their original messages >> would have been moderated, and rejected for being off-topic. > > As a data point, I always use the reply-to-all button in my email > client, on any mailing list. I have had, to date, just one complaint. > > Politeness doesn't really come into it.
Matthew, I agree with Martin that it would work better if you replied to the poster too. There are too many mailing lists on the internet to expect people to remember different reply etiquette for each one. The standard behaviour for contributing on this email list is for people to "reply to all" to mail the list and "reply" to mail an individual privately. If this behaviour should change, we should change the mailing list configuration, rather than tell contributors to behave differently. As a launchpad-users list admin, I hereby encourage people to use "reply-to-all" on this list. Please let's consider this the end of the "reply to all or not" thread. -- Steve Alexander -- launchpad-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
