This Mailinglist

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi Romeyn

<sigh> I wanted to avoid this thread, but what the heck...

I think it makes sense to reply to the list. Since this is largly a 
technical list, responding to the list can make life easier for many 
people who would like to search the archives for solutions. It can also 
promote discussion which might be in the best interest of Ubuntu.

However, it's the mail admin's decision, and whatever the policies of 
the Ubuntu developers or mailing list admin's are, we should respect 
that. I find it inconvenient to change the "to:" field everytime, but 
it's a minor inconvenience.

-Jonathan

Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> I've said it before and I say it again:
> 
> I expect that my REPLY will go to that which sent me the E-mail.  I do 
> not receive E-mail from the individual subscribers of this list, I 
> receive E-mail from the MTA running on the mail list server.  It is to 
> that...the List, if you will...that I expect my REPLY to go.
> 
> Anything else is silly.  Posts to a community list aren't like personal 
> ads in your newspaper's classified ad section!  What good would this 
> list be if everyone posted a problem and all the replies went straight 
> to the person with the problem?  Great for that person, but it kind of 
> leaves the rest of us in the dark.
> 
> To reply to this I had to Reply To All and then manually delete kloschi 
> so he/she wouldn't get two of this.  Asinine.
>