Aahz Maruch wrote: >On Fri, Jul 19, 2013, Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> Every email list I've ever been on has had reply-to-list as the >> default. Why would you participate in a mailing list and not want >> replies sent to the... list? Makes no sense. > >Interesting -- even before the various lists I've been started changing >their policies around a decade ago, I'd say that at least half the lists >I've been on were not reply-to list. As for why, aside from the issue >about boo-boos with intended private messages, it's a way to control list >volume. Another reason is that some mailing lists have restricted access >and anyone not on the list participating in the conversation needs to be >cc'd, and the Reply-To header mucks with that.
I can see how one might accidentally slip and send a private message to the list been there, done that but if I compare the ratio of private emails to public (entire list) emails I've sent in reply to PDML messages it's well over 100:1. Signing on to an email list and then replying to individuals as standard practice seems like walking onto a stage before an audience of 1000 people and then shutting off the microphone to the P.A. and making a cell phone call to a single audience member. It might be useful on occasion but it's a bizarre default setting. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
