On 10/3/05, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default of this list is not to make conversations private; in fact > the list doesn't have any default. It's you who chooses to send replies > to the original author, to the list, or both, by choosing which button > to press in your mail client.
Interesting: which button do I press to reply only to the list? I'm using Gmail, and it only has 'Reply' and 'Reply to all' as options. One sends a private reply; the other sends 2 replies. I checked all my other mail clients, and they work the same way. Setting the default Reply-To: to the list means that 'Reply' sends just to the list (the desired behavior most of the time), and 'Reply to all' sends 2 copies. I'm on several other lists, some of which default replies to the list, and others which default to the sender. I've *never* seen threads like this on the former, while such threads appear like clockwork on the latter. Draw your own conclusion. > Not that it matters that much to me, since I read practically all > mailing lists via gmane.org. That turns the lists into newsgroups, where > the reply button (follow-up, more accurately) does send the reply to the > newsgroup. So the answer is to not use the email interface, since the newsgroup interface actually gets it right! :) -- # p.d. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
