[Tutor] a quick Q: how to use for loop to read a series of files with .doc end

[Walter Prins]

Hi Alan,

On 29 September 2011 18:12, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 29/09/11 17:00, Walter Prins wrote:
>
>  email.  By the way, a question to the list adminstrators: why does the
>> default reply to address for this mailing list not default to the
>> mailing list?
>>
>
> This is an oft debated issue and there are arguments for both options.
> The current setup allows easier replies to either originator or list by
> simply selecting which Reply button you use. If you set default reply to the
> list how do you reply to just the originator when you want to?
>

Well, for that particular (comparatively rare) case, with copy and paste.
(Which is in any case basically what I have to remember to do each and every
time I reply to the list-only currently, assuming I've also remembered to
click reply-all instead of reply...)

IMHO, ideally things should work exactly as they are except that "Reply"
goes to the list, "Reply-all" sends to the list as well as anyone else
(which then allows copying and pasting/re-arranging of addresses etc if only
some people are meant to get the response.) As I say, this would be
consistent with how most other mailing lists (that I'm on anyway) works.
IMHO the current default behaviour makes the most common use-case more work
than it would otherwise be, but fine, if the powers that be actually want it
like it is, then who am I to argue. :)


>
>
> > All my other mailing lists operate like that, it's only
>
>> the Python list that's peculiar in this way... )
>>
>
> I'm the opposite, all my lists work this way.
> I think the older lists tend to work like Python because all the
> older list managers (eg listserv etc) tend to work thataway.
> With the advent of web mail systems lists seem to be swinging
> the other way, but most of my mailing lists pre-date the web
> by a long way! :-)


Yes... well I don't want to start an argument, but I can't help but point
out that just because things might've in sometimes in the past been set up
to work like that doesn't mean it's neccesarily the most appropriate way it
should be done today, in general, or on this list in particular.

But, as I say, I don't want to start an argument -- if this has been debated
before (and you've just told me it has), and so has been deliberately and
intentionally set to the current behaviour then that's fine.  I'll not say
another word about it.  :) (I'll however reserve the right to have a few
choice thoughts about it next time I again forget to swap around the
addresses on reply-all, or when I again robotically click reply instead of
reply-all when responding to this list and end up sending a reply to the
person only instead of to the list and then have to go dig the reply out the
sent box again and forward it on to the list manually...  ;) )

Best,

Walter
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