>> This is a list. Posting has been this way for 10+ years. > >And your point is?.... FSM knows I'm *so* not a fan of change for >change's sake, but I also think it's bizarre to excuse a state of affairs >as "that's the way we've always done it". If people actually do prefer >reply-to list, I'm certainly not agitating for change
So then what are you, a Troll who likes to hear himself talk. I didn't think you were a 13 year old boy, but we know how to deal with those too. Put on your flame retardant underwear before you start anything. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013, Bob Sullivan wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013, Charles Robinson wrote: >>>> On Jul 17, 2013, at 09:25 , Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> More seriously, does anyone remember why this list is set for reply-to >>>>> list? Very few other lists I'm on these days are set that way, precisely >>>>> because the failure mode is worse with reply-to list (screw up with >>>>> reply-to sender and you only send something private you meant public). >>>> >>>> reply-to-list is preferred when it's... a list! >>> >>> Then why have almost all lists switched to reply-to-sender? >> >> This is a list. Posting has been this way for 10+ years. > > And your point is?.... FSM knows I'm *so* not a fan of change for > change's sake, but I also think it's bizarre to excuse a state of affairs > as "that's the way we've always done it". If people actually do prefer > reply-to list, I'm certainly not agitating for change. (And since only > one person has specifically expressed a preference for switching off > reply-to list, I'll shut up except for addressing any other wrong > comments.) > >> Show me another list that doesn't respond to everyone. > > [email protected], just for example. I'm on about > twenty or thirty different mailing lists, I'd say that maybe five are > reply-to list. > >> Pentax Forum sure doesn't post your reply only to the original sender. > > As you said, above, this is a *l*i*s*t*. > >> We like the way this works. Get used to it! > > I'm used to it, just brought it up because someone mentioned mistakenly > replying to list when they intended private, and because I've seen a > number of lists over the last decade or two switch off reply-to list > because of the disproportionate cost of making a mistake. > -- > Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ > <*> <*> <*> > Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
