Nicolas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:30:01AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And yet nearly everyone I know loaths that behavior. The > > overwhelming majority of users prefer mailing list replies > > to go back to the mailing list *only*. > > Users need to learn to do "list reply" or "reply all" :) > > Getting dups (reply all) is no big deal (and even desirable!). > > There's a mailing list I'm on where someone tried to respond privately > to another poster, but didn't realize that reply-to was set, and the > reply went to the list; that reply was a bit embarrassing. I don't > recommend that. >
The much, much more common mistake is that users press reply instead of reply-all and they message does not go back to the list. This happens with alarming regularity. And when the reply does not go back to the list, their contribution to the conversation is lost from the archive. This is bad. Furthermore, reply-all causes the original sender to get two copies of the message instead of one. My mailbox is full enough already without getting two of everything. In the very rare case where you want to respond to the individual rather than to the list, it is easy enough to change the To: field of your email. But responding to an individual should be the exception, rather than the rule. Remember, we want all responses to be on-list because usually when one person asks a question, there are a dozen others that have the same question but have not yet asked it. If people reply off-list, then the same question gets asked and answered over, and over again. But if the answer is on-list, then multiple people can benefit from the answer. The common case is responding to the list. Without Reply-To munging, if you press reply-all, then you have to go up and manually remove the original senders name from the To: field. This is extra work in the common case. We perfer to optimize the common case, rather than the exceptional case. A better way of avoiding embarrassment from public revelation of secretive correspondence is to deal openly and honestly with everybody in the first place. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
