[ale] Regarding replies to the list...

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:08 pm, Fletch wrote:
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

I wish I had a nickel for every time I've seen this referenced as if it 
were gospel.  I find it thoroughly unconvincing.

IMHO, if the purpose of a list is to promote a community (as I think this 
list does) then replies should default to the list.  If not, and the 
preference is for replies to the sender, the set reply to the sender.

There is a technical problem with reply to the list and that is that it may 
be hard to find some people's return address, and so it will be difficult 
to write to them individually.  I think this is pretty rare, nowadays.

There is a second reason to have reply to sender--it might cut back on the 
number of stupid, off-topic, political discussions that drag on forever 
and don't contribute to the general Linux knowledge.  Even this worthy 
goal isn't sufficient to make me vote for reply to sender.

--Michael
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