On 2021-08-06 at 07:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 06:54:53AM -0400, Polyna-Maude > Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> Hi, > > [...] > >> Maybe this is obvious for you, but for myself, I don't take note >> of who's "on the list" and "who's not" [...] > > Easy: if the message comes from the list, reply goes to the list. > Your MUA should be able to help you with that, if it's worth its > salt.
I get enough accidental direct replies (proportionally speaking, anyway) that I don't consider this practical. There are too many times when a reply that was sent privately *should* have gone via the list, and so the reply to that should go in turn back to the list. (Which in turn happens because of the whole Reply-To-header argument thing, and everything around it which I don't want to spark off again now...) That said, there are definitely times when it's clear whether a direct reply was unintentional vs. not, and outside of special circumstances the ones intentionally sent off-list should be kept that way without mutual agreement. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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