[Tutor] OT: Admin suggestion: Add reply address to mailer

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Jeff Shannon wrote:

> Kirk Bailey wrote:
>
> > This is not the first time I have onsidered such issues. It would be
> > good if you could click one button to reply to the sender, and another
> > to reply to the list. Alas, clicking REPLY ALL sends back to BOTH on
> > netscape.
>
> Yes, 'reply all' sends back to both parties, with pretty much any
> mailer.  (That's why it's 'reply ALL'.)


Hi everyone,


And in most cases, doing Reply to All is the right thing to do, especially
on mailing lists that support Digest mode.  There are some people who have
turned off "list delivery" on their mailman settings, or in a less extreme
case, are running in digest mode.


Hypothetical situation: if you're in digest mode, and you ask a question
on the Tutor list, do you want to wait for the next digest to see if
someone has responded to your question?


This is not actually such an uncommon situation: the majority of
subscribers to Python-Tutor are on Digest mode!  These folks may still
like to occasionally post and get direct responses to their questions.
Trimming the reply-to list to only the list, though, cuts them off and
prevents them from getting timely answers.



Anyway, let's get back to talking about Python.  *grin*