[Mailman-Users] Reply to list

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Fri Feb 6 00:09:42 CET 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 23:09, Warren Woodward wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:55:26PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> > 	Do they prefer to have messages which they thought would be 
> > private replies being blasted to the whole list?
> 
> The reality of the modern, public internet is that the opposite is far
> more common -- right or wrong, in most common, public internet circles
> (I'm talking the far more prevelant "recipe sharing"-style lists, not "RFC
> management"-style lists), people have grown to accept as standard that in

The question is not "what is more convenient" but "what reduces the
damage of severe errors in replying".
And the default being list-reply is IMHO worse on errors than otherwise.

	Bernd
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