On Tue, Jun 03, 2008, Brandon Mintern wrote:
p.s. Sorry, Greg, for the dupe. Why don't the Python mailing lists generate Reply-To headers? It's pretty annoying to always have to remember to say "Reply to all" instead of simply "Reply".
Because the culture is to prefer private replies when public replies are not necessary. Plus it provides a small level of insurance against really private replies going out in public. Here are the canonical URLs: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 1993