Hi Alan, On 29 September 2011 18:12, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 29/09/11 17:00, Walter Prins wrote: > > email. By the way, a question to the list adminstrators: why does the >> default reply to address for this mailing list not default to the >> mailing list? >> > > This is an oft debated issue and there are arguments for both options. > The current setup allows easier replies to either originator or list by > simply selecting which Reply button you use. If you set default reply to the > list how do you reply to just the originator when you want to? > Well, for that particular (comparatively rare) case, with copy and paste. (Which is in any case basically what I have to remember to do each and every time I reply to the list-only currently, assuming I've also remembered to click reply-all instead of reply...) IMHO, ideally things should work exactly as they are except that "Reply" goes to the list, "Reply-all" sends to the list as well as anyone else (which then allows copying and pasting/re-arranging of addresses etc if only some people are meant to get the response.) As I say, this would be consistent with how most other mailing lists (that I'm on anyway) works. IMHO the current default behaviour makes the most common use-case more work than it would otherwise be, but fine, if the powers that be actually want it like it is, then who am I to argue. :) > > > > All my other mailing lists operate like that, it's only > >> the Python list that's peculiar in this way... ) >> > > I'm the opposite, all my lists work this way. > I think the older lists tend to work like Python because all the > older list managers (eg listserv etc) tend to work thataway. > With the advent of web mail systems lists seem to be swinging > the other way, but most of my mailing lists pre-date the web > by a long way! :-) Yes... well I don't want to start an argument, but I can't help but point out that just because things might've in sometimes in the past been set up to work like that doesn't mean it's neccesarily the most appropriate way it should be done today, in general, or on this list in particular. But, as I say, I don't want to start an argument -- if this has been debated before (and you've just told me it has), and so has been deliberately and intentionally set to the current behaviour then that's fine. I'll not say another word about it. :) (I'll however reserve the right to have a few choice thoughts about it next time I again forget to swap around the addresses on reply-all, or when I again robotically click reply instead of reply-all when responding to this list and end up sending a reply to the person only instead of to the list and then have to go dig the reply out the sent box again and forward it on to the list manually... ;) ) Best, Walter
_______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
