John Kaufmann wrote: > Fred, it has nothing to do with posting etiquette, and really not > much to do with which mail clients people are using. > > The reason you are seeing that a lot lately is because of the change > in this list, made a couple months ago, to drop the "Reply-To: list" > header. One consequence is that the appropriate reply is now > "Reply-to-all" in order to get the reply to the list - which also has > the unfortunate side effect of posting privately as well, an effect > which may vary a bit depending on which headers are set in the post > to which you reply. [If you notice the headers now, some posts have > vnc-list in the "From:" header, some have it in "To:", and some in > "Cc:". But never, sadly, in "Reply-To:".] > > The loss of proper threading, and increased confusion, to which you > refer was predicted by many posters, and I believe understood, before > the change was made. IMHO the list has become a bit poorer - > marginally less useful - for the change. But it has nothing to do > with list etiquette. > -- > John
John, Please note that I've copied the lists. I think I owe an apology to the group for the tone if indignation and condemnation in my past two emails. If it is an issue with the list administration, then it's really inappropriate to the preaching about manners. Despite the website that one respondent referred to, I believe that the reply-to list should be coerced to be to the list only. It's easly enough to turn a thread into a personal communication, but look at all the extraneous traffic and individual emails from not maintaining a clear distinction between forum and independent communication. There's no reason why the protocol of a newsgroup wouldn't benefit this forum. There, the default reply is to the group. For good reason, which I ranted about in my prior postings. Sorry for the fire and brimstone. Fred -- Fred Ma, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario Canada, K1S 5B6 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
