Thread hijacking

[Christopher Chan]

Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

So did I on the qmail list. Nobody made a real big issue out of it and 
called for Reply-To: to set back to the list. What some people actually 
did is set Mail-Follow-Up: too.

> 
>>> 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.
> 

So? Those lists are representative of the entire mailing list market are 
they now?