Re: [Gnu-arch-users] "reply all" etiquette: reply-all vs. reply'ing to list

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 08:48, Robin Farine wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 00.40, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
> > With Evolution, I find I regularly have to just reply, and change
> > the recipient to the list, since reply-all so rarely results in
> > the list address coming up in the "To:" field.
> 
> Does not "Reply to list" do what you want ?

Indeed it does. That's a useful function to know - thanks.
That solves my "not wanting to spam people" half of the problem.

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 08:48, Miles Bader wrote: 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 08:40:36AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > As a little request: can people please attempt to follow "standard" list
> > etiquette, and reply-to-list rather than reply-all.
> 
> "Standard list etiquette" is reply-to-all, because it is the safest method.
> 
> If gnu-arch-users is a closed list (it used to be in the old days; now I have
> no idea), I suppose there could be a recommendation that people use
> reply-to-list or something when possible instead.

I believe it's a gnu-mailman list that results in the list
admin/owner being notified to dis/approve of 'external' posts.

Which means that outside posts can come through.

And so I guess this means we need to reply-all.

I haven't been doing this.

When I post to lists I'm not subscribed to, I usually ask for
a CC explicitly.

However, is reply-all the preferred approach here on gau?

If so, I shall use it.

Thanks all
Zen