[Tutor] [OT] Replies go to individuals, not the list?

[Andy McKenzie]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

> On 20/08/13 13:15, Andy McKenzie wrote:
>
>  Yep.  Someone decided it didn't make sense for "reply" to go to the list
>> that sent the message
>>
>
> Lists never send messages. People do.
>
> So reply goes to the *person* who sent the message.
> Which is what mail always does, to modify it for mail
> forwarded by a list server makes no sense whatsoever.
> And it breaks the ability to send to the originator.
>
> IMHO of course :-)
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor>
>

The problem is, as far as I'm concerned the message came from the list.
Needing to go to the dropdown and select "Reply to all" is just one extra
movement, and it's one I have to make every single time I reply.  In all
honesty, I can't think of a single time that I've wanted to reply to just
the original sender:  that's the point of a mailing list, to have
conversations on it.  I've occasionally been prompted to remember that I
wanted to ask an individual something specific off-list, but it's never
been a direct response to what was posted ON the list.

As to the ability to send to the originator:  I've been on a lot of lists
where the address was munged.  They all included the original sender's
email address in the body, so if I really wanted to send to them, I could.
And the rest of the time (basically always) I didn't have to think about it.

It's basically a practicality thing for me.  On a list where the vast
majority of replies went to the original sender, I'd agree with you.  For
something like this, it's just making me do extra work without providing me
with an extra benefit.

Andy
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