Date   : Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:46:10 +0100
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: Adressing posts (off topic)

I am on a few mailing lists that respond to "reply" with an e-mail direct to
the sender and "reply all" with the same and another to the list. It's very
hard trying to get them all right. There's also the problem of posting your
reply at the top or the bottom, snipping bits from previous messages or
leaving it intact (different lists demand different methods regardless of
which is deemed "correct").
It's also handy to add "off topic" if it's not actually about the subject or
some other indicator - I took "addressing" to mean something quite different
:-)
Personally, I prefer a top reply leaving the original messages intact
(unless they are very long) and a click on "reply" going to the list but
then that's just me. I agree having to edit and amend e-mails is
time-consuming and tedious and it is also quite difficult to remember which
list wants what so I apologise in advance as I have probably broken every
rule for this one.
Not a moan, just a muse.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Adressing posts


> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:53 +0200, Johan Heuseveldt wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Please all, don't address posts to both the list and a person too, with
> > its personal address. Mailers are different, and so is their behaviour:
> > Most likely you'll end up with two messages, or just one at the wrong
> > place (user/folder).
>
> That's why it'd be *really* nice to have the mailing list headers
> changed, so that default behaviour was for a reply to go to the list.
> This mailing list seems pretty unique in not having things set up like
> that :-(
>
> Having to cut and paste email addresses around on every reply to a post
> gets a little tiresome....
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
>
>
>
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