Re: Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all

2015-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Nick Sarbicki writes: > My question then is do you reply to all (with a clean cc list but > including an OP from outside the list) in response to a persons > question If the question was addressed to this forum, then answering the question should also be addressed to this forum. So: reply to lis

Re: Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all

2015-09-09 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > Personally, what I do (which I'm doing with this post) is to use > Gmail's "reply-all" feature, and then manually delete the individual > addresses. That is testimony in support of the position that Google Mail is a poorly-designed interface for discussion forums such as

Re: Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all

2015-09-09 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/9/2015 2:09 AM, Ben Finney wrote: Terry Reedy writes: [Reply] should send the reply to the list. The function named “reply” normally means “reply individually to the author”, and that's how it needs to stay. Oh, right. I was thinking of 'Followup' and that should go to the list, an

Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all (was: Need Help w. PIP!)

2015-09-08 Thread Ben Finney
Terry Reedy writes: > On 9/8/2015 6:19 PM, Cody Piersall wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > > mailto:pointede...@web.de>> wrote: > > > > > > Cody Piersall wrote: > > > > > > > Please respond to the list as well as the person you're > > > > actually talking

Re: Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all (was: Need Help w. PIP!)

2015-09-08 Thread Nick Sarbicki
On 9 Sep 2015 07:11, "Ben Finney" wrote: > > Terry Reedy writes: > > > On 9/8/2015 6:19 PM, Cody Piersall wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > > > mailto:pointede...@web.de>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Cody Piersall wrote: > > > > > > > > > Please respond to th

Re: Reply to author, reply to list, reply to all (was: Need Help w. PIP!)

2015-09-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Nick Sarbicki wrote: > My question then is do you reply to all (with a clean cc list but including > an OP from outside the list) in response to a persons question, even if the > question is relatively simple. > > For me it's appreciated so that you know someone is