Thread hijacking

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/12/16 Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>:
>> ...
>> Unintentional private replies and private replies with the list in the
>> CC are too different things. The first is hardly a violation of
>> anything, it was a mistake. The second one however is probably the sort
>> of stuff before a flame war gets started.
> 
> Unfortunately some lists are set up so a simple reply will go only to
> the poster, so one has to remember to do Reply To All.  It is easy to
> forget which list is which and do the wrong sort of reply.   The
> gnucash-user list is an example of this, in the mail footer it has:

That is the way things were in the beginning. It is not 'unfortunately' 
at all.

> 
> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All
> 
> Why it is setup like this I have no idea, it makes it easy to make mistakes.
> 

Because it is RFC recommended. It would appear that only lists like 
ubuntu-users that seem to want to discourage private/direct replies are 
setup otherwise.