Etiquette comment and question

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 20:48, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:22:08PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > If you hit "Reply" to a message that has a "Reply-To" header, the message
> > will be addressed to the address given in that header, not the list.
>
> Then the MUA is working as expected.

Maybe so, but the whole point of mailing lists existing is to have an open 
discussion. Standard user behaviour is to hit Reply to respond to a message. 
The user should not have to think about whether it is a public list or a 
private discussion; their response should go the the most appropriate 
location by default.

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Sridhar Dhanapalan  [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/]
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"The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure 
that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did."
	- Milton Friedman, Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003
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