On 29 January 2013 03:35, DoanVietTrungAtGmail <doanviettr...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a student user of this list, I prefer leaving the Reply-To field > unchanged. I like the fact that this means a deliberate decision is > required to send public emails.
If you don't mind my asking, do you send many off-list messages as replies to on-list ones? I see the mailing list as being fundamentally a public message forum and only very occasionally send an off-list message. Usually the reason that I do this is because someone else has sent me a message off-list and even though I'm fairly sure they meant it to be on-list I don't want to assume that they did by replying back to the list. Often this means that the archives are incomplete, so that there is a thread but the part of the thread where the OP says "Thanks, this is the solution that worked" or "Sorry, that's not what I meant. My actual problem is..." is missing. Not having this information on the list is unhelpful. It is unhelpful for people reading the archives in the future, for people who keep replying to a thread that is essentially solved, and for people who offer suggestions and don't get feedback on whether their suggestions were useful. Of course if the message is deliberately sent off-list then that is fine but I find that I send/receive many more accidentally off-list messages than deliberate ones. It's hard to predict how often the alternative, accidentally sending a private message to the list, would occur. Although judging from other lists where reply-to-list is the default I would say not very often. I don't find that replying to the list is a deliberate decision to engage in public conversation since the fact that I read and respond to the list at all is because I have already made that decision. For me at least, it is replying off-list that requires explicit consideration. Oscar _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor