You've stepped on a religious-war landmine. You can read all about why this is bad here: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ("Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful) and why it's good here: http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml (Reply-To Munging Considered Useful)
This war has been raging since the dawn of mailing lists, and you're not likely to get a resolution now either. To me, the context of a mailing list warrants the use of Reply-All to the list, since a mailing list is typically meant to be a group discussion. In this configuration, it takes extra effort to reply privately, which is exactly the sort of thing you'd want to promote in a group discussion. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I belong to many, many forums, Yahoo Groups, (Usenet) newsgroups, and mail > lists. Probably 100 or more. I think it's fair to say that none of them but > this one has an implicit "Reply All". For newsgroups and mail lists, I just > press my Mozilla Seamonkey mailer Reply button and the resulting message is > ready to be seen by everyone, a single address. Here a Reply goes only to > the poster, none to Tutor. Elsewhere, for e-mail-like posts, if I really > want to make a special effort to single out the poster too, "Reply All" > works to additionally get it directly to them (actually they'd get two > messages directly) and the entire list. For YGs and forums, the "Reply > All" is implicit in a response. > > Since this group, in my world, is unique in these matters, I'll just offer > the following header for a mail list I belong to, the ASTC, for someone's > consideration. I suppose that someone might be whoever created this mail > list. It' definitely different than used here, and no one uses "Reply All" > to my knowledge. > > Maybe they can figure out if it has applicability here. > -- > > Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) > > (121.01 Deg. W, 39.26 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) > > > The Richard Feynman Problem-Solving Algorithm: > (1) write down the problem; > (2) think very hard; > (3) write down the answer. > > Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
