At 030202 13:50 -0500, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote:
Fred, it has nothing to do with posting etiquette, and really not much to do with which mail clients people are using.Hello,I'm finding that I sometimes receive email on a thread that is also posted to a mailing list or newsgroup. It could be a thread I started, or joined afterward. The problem is that there is no information on the headers that the email is also posted to the forum. So my reply is not copied to the forum. The thread is broken, and that defeats the purpose of the forum. Because this is happening alot lately I think it might be the default behaviour of certain mailing programs (maybe the only behaviour?). I don't have any suspect programs in mind, but I know that netscape doesn't do this by default. Anyone else finding this? Would it be OK to clarify whether this is proper etiquette in the mailing list welcome, and maybe the way to avoid this behaviour with some of the more common programs? ...
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.
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John
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