Ray Davison wrote:
Most of the email lists I subscribe to, "reply" goes to the list. But
on a few - like this one - it goes only to the person that posted the
message being replied to. So I reply and wonder why it didn't post. So
I use "reply all" and delete the person and leave the list address.
On one list it was explained as a function of the list server and to
live with it. Is that as good as it gets?
This has come up numerous times in the past, but off the top of my head
the main arguments are...
The way this list is set up is how email normally works - "Reply" sends
a response to the individual person who sent the message, and "Reply
All" sends a response to everyone (there's also "Reply List" to send
only to the list, so the original sender doesn't get two copies, but as
has been mentioned it's not quite so convenient to access, at least in
SeaMonkey).
Mailing lists which set the "Reply-To" address to the list's address
makes it more difficult if you want to reply to the individual, since
"Reply", "Reply All" and "Reply to List" all just go back to the list.
Furthermore, the original sender might have set their own Reply-To
address at which they expect to receive messages, so even if you go to
the extra effort to manually copy the "From" address to send a reply,
that might not be the right address. Although it's generally considered
good form to keep discussion on-list, there are sometimes cases where
individual responses are warranted.
Mailing lists which set the "From" address to the list's address have
similar problems, and it that case it's not even possible to see the
individual's address if you want to send a private reply.
For what it's worth, the other lists I mainly interact with are the
LibreOffice and GIMP users' lists, and they're both set up the same as
this one, where replies go to the individual. So from my point of view,
your argument of "most of the email lists I subscribe to" supports the
way this list is set up.
--
Mark.
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