[CentralOH] Reply to List or Author?

Jon Miller jonebird at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 19:50:13 CET 2010


I'm indifferent. I know to hit 'a' for reply-all within gmail. ;-)

-- Jon

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Nick Albright <nick.albright at gmail.com> wrote:
> I vote for reply to the list!  I find that to be more intuitive/what I'd
> expect.  = )
>  -Nick
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I often do the same thing...
>>
>> So I was set to change the list to change the "Reply-To" to the list, but
>> when I when I went to do it, here is the text on that option: "Where are
>> replies to list messages directed? Poster is strongly recommended for most
>> mailing lists."
>>
>> When clicked on "more detail", there were lots of warnings about why it's
>> a bad idea to change reply-to to the list address, including a link to this:
>> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>>
>> The point being that "Reply" should always mean "Reply to the
>> author/poster", and "Reply all" or "Reply group" should mean reply to all
>> concerned.
>>
>> Interestingly, both you, I, and Austin use a gmail interface which makes
>> the "Reply" button prominent, but not "Reply All".  I wonder if the issue is
>> really a gmail usability issue.
>>
>> Anyway, don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but the
>> admonition on the admin interface to change the reply-to was strong enough
>> that it gave me pause enough to post it here.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, m g <miles.groman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Heh... This is what I meant last night.  I am pretty sure just about
>>> every reply I do to the mailing list, I accidentally e-mail the
>>> previous person first.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Austin Godber <godber at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:25 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CentralOH] Thoughts on a slight Meeting format change?
>>> To: m g <miles.groman at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> First off, thanks to last nights speaker for an interesting topic and
>>> it was nice to meet those of you who I actually met.
>>>
>>> As for the sessions I was unaware that there were post presentation
>>> sessions, no wonder we had so few takers for post presentation beer,
>>> which was good by the way.  Brazenhead is a cool place.
>>>
>>> I had thought I might offer to do a "Python Thing (Module, Library,
>>> Function) of the Meeting"  lightning presentation on a somewhat
>>> regular basis.  Like a light version of PyMOTW, well, but admittedly
>>> not as good:
>>> http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/contents.html
>>> If this is the kind of thing people are interested in, I can just
>>> announce a week or so before a meeting what I might do and if I will
>>> can make it.
>>>
>>> Austin
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, m g <miles.groman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > By groups, of course, I assume you mean the "Cohpy site" and "learning
>>> > Python" groups?
>>> >
>>> > I noticed that the administration takes about ~30 minutes.. So the
>>> > actual presentation doesn't start until around 7.  I vote for a
>>> > shorter, focused, presentation of 30 minutes, and then breaking out
>>> > into the groups.  Of course, there is no reason why people could not
>>> > present on a topic relevant to a group, right?
>>> >
>>> > Offtopic ... Does a #cohpy exist?
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