On 3 August 2012 19:35, Alan Gauld <[email protected]> wrote: > The list doesn't care, you probably did it by hitting Reply > instead of Reply All. > > Reply replies to the person who posted. Reply All replies to all > on the list. Just like regular email.
> That's just how its set up, to mimic normal email. Well normally I expect emails from a list (being the direct sender), to go back to the sender, e.g. the list, and emails directly from a person to go back to that person. (Differently put, I expect *any* email to by default go back to the sender, in general, unless I specify otherwise. So if a mailing list sends me an email, my default expectation is that the mail goes back to the list, unless I specify otherwise. This seems perfectly intuitive to me, but hey ho what the hey. :) ) > It's not the only list set up that way, most of the ones I use do it like > that. You get used to it :-) Yes... most of the ones *I* use don't. Snap. Darn. :) (More seriously, I must admit this "feature" remains an nuisance in my book as well. I might add that regardless of current setup, historical precedents or whatever other rationalization one might cite, it nevertheless seems a less than ideal setup choice for this list given that the default behaviour caters for the minority use-case; The majority of the time most people will want their replies to posts on the list to go back to the list, and not back to the individual who posted to the list, since the whole point of the list is to encourage collective discussion. Taking tutor problems off list is generally counter productive both for the people being helped and others who may benefit from the conversation. Therefore the default setup should IMHO be that replies go back to the list, not to the OP.) Anyway, I'll go back to leaving this issue alone again now. Have a good weekend everyone :) Walter _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
