On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote: >>> A 'reply to all' adds belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org to the CC field >>> though. >>> >> >> That is a workaround, and not a fix. > > That's how pretty much all the mailing lists I'm on work, and I much > prefer that. Else you get into too much noise. Some lists might get > over 100 posts per day even with that. >
Let me know if I have understood you clearly : You prefer that person A posts to the list, person B replies to person A directly by hitting the Reply button. Please see below for my perspective on why I feel that this may not help build up a list based knowledge base. > And particularly since you use gmail, it is trivial to reply to all > and you can even switch from reply to reply to all after you've > written your reply, without having to manually add a cc or the like. > I have indeed made it a practice to hit reply to all, but sometimes, I end up hitting reply, and the response goes to the person who posted the message. This way, the list misses out on the discussion - important because at present, the Belenix and the Bangalore Open Solaris User Group lists ( two lists that have nearly the same members) are all still learning about Solaris and OpenSolaris. -- Sriram
