On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> For lists, you want a followup not a reply. A reply should only be > sent to the original sender (i.e. default to private). A followup > should be sent to everyone involved - hence 'reply to all' as the > common alias for 'followup.' Mail clients have followup? > I've yet to see a rational argument for munging Reply-To other than > 'it decreases my email traffic.' As I pointed out above, there are > commonly accepted ways to solve that, but there is no way to solve > the problem of dropped followups. -- justin Mine is that it destroys the conversation. Lists are predominantly slow things, they lag heavily. I send something to someone and Cc a list. That person replies to me and Cc's the list. I reply. We can get deep into the discussion [read rampant argument] before the rest of the list catch up. The list turns into a 2-person conversation with lots of eavesdroppers. Hen
