On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> writes: > > > On Wed, Feb 3, 2016, at 16:50, Ben Finney wrote: > > > (You will also have a “reply to all” command. That's almost never > > > appropriate in a forum like this.) > > > > Why not? People reply all to messages I write all the time, and I find > > it somewhat useful since it separates replies to things I have said > > from discussions I'm not part of. > > That's nice for you that it coincides with what you find useful. For > those who don't want messages to the forum duplicated in their inbox, > the behaviour is obnoxious. > > In other words: Using “reply to all” on a forum like this is > inappropriate because you can't know what every participant wants, so > your set of recipients should be conservative and err on the side of not > sending a duplicate message to people who didn't ask for it. > > -- > \ “Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas | > `\ are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” | > _o__) —Howard Aiken | > Ben Finney > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > I use gmail and hit reply all and then (usually, unless i forget) delete all recipients except the group -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
