And just when we thought the reply-to thread was dead for good ;)
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000, Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote about "Re: OT: To: & Cc:":
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Guy Cohen wrote:
>
> > I been away from the list for a while and beed reading the list again
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > for the last few days. I could not help but noticing pepoel reply
> > to mails to the sender _and_ to the list, and i ask you why ?
> > In mutt you press the "L" for replying only to the list, so is that
> > so hard to do that instead of typing the "g" for global reply ?
> > I'm quite sure pine, elm, or any other mailer have a group reply only
> > botton/function. So why don't use that ?
In my version of mutt (and probably yours too...), using "L" requires you
to list each and every mailing list you subscribe to in special directives
in the muttrc file. This is problematic in two ways:
1. Most people don't know how to use this feature, so "L" doesn't work
for them, so they use "g", which does work. Pure and simple - the less
straightforward a feature is, the less people will use it.
2. The lists mentioned on these directives have other side-effects besides
making "L" work. The most annoying side-effect (for me) is that for every
mailing list message, in the message list, you see the mailing list name
instead of the poster's name. For people that don't have email filtering
this is actually good, but for me it is very bad - I have a seperate
folder for linux-il, and it doesn't help much when each and every message
there is labled "linux-il" rather then by the poster's name! Perhaps
there's a way to circumvent this problem, but I didn't bother to waste
my time on this, because linux-il is one of the very few mailing lists
that have this problem, and because the "g" solution works.
> > Guy
> >
> > P.S. now if someone reply to this, i just wondar how it will be done (L/g) ?.
Like 95% of the people on this list, I replied with "g"...
> You answer your own question. The double reply is for folks who post to
> lists to which they do not subscribe. Think about it.
I don't think this is true. Most lists (I'm not sure if linux-il is like that)
don't even allow people to post without subscribing first. This makes a lot
of sense - it is very rude to "shout" a question in a mailing list, and then
instead of hanging around the list to read the replies, you run away and
expect that people find you themselves. So after you write a question in
a mailing list (or newsgroup) good nettiquette requires you to stay on that
mailing list (or newsgroup) and read the discussion that results from it.
Requests like "please reply directly to me because I don't have time to read
this list" are generally frowned-upon and ignored.
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