On Wed, Nov 29, 2000, Moshe Zadka 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
> > ...
> You know, the wonderful thing about the internet and client/server
> protocols, is that you never know what's on the other side. Maybe
> I used "vi" to edit /var/spool/mail for your message, replied then
> used /usr/lib/sendmail to send it?
You sort-of missed the point - if people were using vi & sendmail to send
replies, then indeed almost nobody will reply to both the person on the
list (except the people who _deliberately_ want to do that, but most people
don't). The reason many people do end up sending the message twice is
because their non-vi-and-sendmail editor makes it easy to do so, usually
in the form of a "group reply" or "reply to all" operation. So to understand
why people do that, you have to understand the muas they use. I.e., does
pine make it easy to reply this way? Does mutt? Does Netscape, Kmail, or
whatever? As mentioned by me and other people, in mutt, just as an example,
it is trivial to reply in this fashion, but it is not-trivial (although not
very hard) to reply only to the list.
It's like asking why most (if not all) messages on this list are in English,
and then replying "the wonderful thing about the internet and client/server
protocols, is that you never know what's on the other side. I can send a
message in Klingon if I want". This is true, but not really an answer to the
question. To answer the question you do need to understand the actual, not
"theoretical", users.
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