Re: The war of reply vs. replyto

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:39, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 13:11, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:56, Mike Tibor wrote:
> > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > >
> > > > Why is the list not set up so that when I hit reply it only replies to
> > > > the original sender and not the list? I would rather have it the other
> > > > way around but if it is this way for a reason then I can live with that.
> > > > :)
> > >
> > > Well, the behavior you describe is how it's set up currently. Originally
> > > it was configured so replies would go to the list, but the majority of
> > > people who had a preference seemed to want replies to go the original
> > > sender. So I went ahead and configured it that way and it's been that way
> > > ever since.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
  Yep, most who put lots of effort into participation have found
themselves sending something to the list that they really intended as
"off list". Most such come down on the side of "reply to sender" as the
default. ie, they are now gun-shy. Some of them are even abrasively
opinionated when discussing it.

> >
> > Hmm, sounds like a bunch of elitists pigs with socialists ties to the
> > shadow government running the world. They must also be top posters.
> >
> > Jon
>
> As a bonfified member of the aforementioned groups I can tell you that
> all you need is a mail program that has 'reply to sender', 'reply to
> all' and 'reply to list', not a big deal, unless you are a ludite, most
> modern mail programs do this ;-)

and Galeon has ^R (to SENDER) or shift^R (to ALL), but requires mouse
action to reply to list :-((

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Received on Fri Mar 12 15:31:58 2004