Wayne Watson 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.
This is a contentious topic which comes up at least once a year on this list. A search of the archives will turn up some interesting debate, most likely. FWIW, I like the behavior of this list as opposed to others. You may find these additional references illuminating ... you may not. http://effbot.org/pyfaq/tutor-why-do-my-replies-go-to-the-person-who-sent-the-message-and-not-to-the-list.htm http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html HTH, Marty _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor