On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:42:50 -0500, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <513298fa$0$30001$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:53:47 -0500, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Yes, but reply-all sends a copy to the poster as well as the list. >> >> What I want is reply-list, acknowledging the list headers... and >> >> Gmail simply doesn't have that. >> > >> > I've been replying to the poster and the list for ages. Is it bad >> > netiquette? >> >> I find it annoying, and yes I consider it rude. > > I actually find it convenient and useful when people do that. If > somebody's replying to a thread I'm active on, I consider the responses > to that thread to be higher priority than the rest of the firehose, so > it's good for me that they've copied me directly.
Does your newsreader not have a "watch thread" command? > I also read this list via usenet. During the workday, I don't have > convenient access to a newsreader, but I do get mail. If I post a > question to the group from home in the morning, when people cc me > directly on replies, I get them quickly. If they only post to the > group, I have to either wait until I get home to catch up on netnews, > or use one of several less convenient means of accessing the group from > work. Or you could, I dunno, *work* while at work. <wink> -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
