On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 08:02:02AM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > This is exactly the problem: if you have unexperienced or uninterested > users you want them to have an easy user interface. Teaching them to > hit reply if they want to answer just to the poster and reply to all > for answering all (aka the list) is difficult enough, even though this > does not break with the thing you do with mail to multiple receivers > without mailinglists. If you don't have the "avoid box" checked in > mailman those people get duplicate messages and that's what you do not > want, because this ends in discussions about their MUAs and then you > are screwed anyway.
Why? It is awkward replying to a list when a copy isn't sent to the subscriber of the list¹ 'L' doesn't work for a start. Catering for inexperienced or uninterested users unfortunately makes it awkward for normal users. Inexperienced or uninterested users will soon become experienced users and will eventually thank you. (maybe?) :) ¹ I've got a strange feeling of deja vu ... mmmmm!? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
