When sending a reply to a post, to the list, should we also address the reply to the author of the post to which we are replying? (There's gotta be an easier way to say that..) If we do so, then the author gets a duplicate of our reply.
I've run some statistics (but no more bar graphs ;-) ). My Eudora mailbox for Tutor contains 12,114 emails (I've deleted the duplicates I've received). Of these, 9,424 are replies. Of these replies, 4,338 (46%) were addressed ONLY to the list. So 54% WERE also sent to the author being replied to. Is there a rule about this? Or should one be made? Or does it matter? Replying only to the list takes a bit of trouble. The default behavior seems to be that the "Reply" button addresses the author only and not the list; "Reply to all" addresses both the list, the author, and any others included in the To: or Cc: headers of the post being replied to. Or at least that's how Eudora and Gmail work. Ten years ago or so I managed a Majordomo list, and I recall that it was possible for the list manager to configure the list to include a "Reply-To" header. If this would be possible for the admins to do with Tutor -- to include a "Reply-To: tutor@python.org" header in the posts sent out by the list, it would enable us to address a reply only to the list by hitting the "Reply" button. Dick Moores _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
