On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:54:33 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > It is usually better and prefer the "answer to all" policy as it permit > > to be notified of an answer without having to track the whole mailing > > list. > > If I post to the list, I expect a reply via the list. Getting two replies > is annoying, especially if I don't realise the private one is a duplicate > and reply to it before checking the list. One of the main points of a list > is that it is a public discussion, archived for all to see, fragmenting > conversations into private mail defeats that point. > Precisely, except that I'm not as annoyed as some of you seem to be. Part of the way a mailing list works is that there is always discontent about the way the mailing list works. This hasn't changed much, if at all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
