This Mailinglist - another vote for sanity

[David]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:52:47AM +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> Hi Romeyn
> 
> <sigh> I wanted to avoid this thread, but what the heck...


I get mail from the list, so I reply to the list. Pretty simple really.

I'm on about 10 other lists, and only this one has this "feature". I'm 
sure everyone either manually alters "To:", or uses an MUA to alter it - 
having to change "To:" OR click on reply-to-list is a PITA.

If some MUA's have a reply-to-list function, then that's very funky for 
them, but irrelevent. 

I get the message from the list, and I want to reply to the list. What's 
hard about it?

David

PS:
In case you didn't get it:

Receive mail from Ubuntu list --> Reply to Ubuntu list  ;-)



> 
> 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.
> >
> 
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