Thread hijacking

[Colin Law]

2009/12/16 Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>:
> 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.

It is unfortunate for me as I keep getting it wrong on that list.

>
>>
>> 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.

All of the lists I subscribe to except one operate as ubuntu-users does.

Colin