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

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 06:43:11PM -0500, John Meinel wrote:
> Actually, the bigger problem I have is that the list puts itself in 'To' 
> but not From, so a plain Reply only replies to the person. I'm not sure 
> why, the other mailing lists I'm on put themselves as the Reply-To:
...
> What I would like to see is the list set Reply-To, then just plain reply 
> is reply-list.

This has been the subject of multiple flame wars on g-a-u (and many other
lists I'm on).  To summarize: it's utterly the wrong thing to do.  That many
other lists do it stems from the cluelessness of their administrators; as you
may have noticed, there are many clueless people around.

-Miles
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