Thread hijacking

[Tom H]

>>> 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.

The Sun Managers, RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora lists behave like
ubuntu-users so the latter is not the exception that you are implying.