[webproducers] Re: replying to msgs
- From: MJ Ray <mjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:28:35 +0100
Morry Galonoy <morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...]
> The most common rationale I got was
> a) it's a discussion list so the default should be to discuss (i.e.
> send to the entire list)
> b) people were used to reply going to the whole list for ours and most
> other discussion lists they were on
>
> If memory serves correctly in our early years (maybe around 2002 or
> 2003 ) I did change the list so that reply went only to the original
> poster but we went back to the way it is now to support the feedback
> we got.
Most email clients have moved on a bit since 2003 and many support
email lists better now. The two popular oddities are Thunderbird
(needs an extension from http://www.juergen-ernst.de/addons/replytolist.html
- why it isn't in as standard, I don't know) and Outlook (but if
you're on an email list and use Outlook, spam and autoreplies are
bigger problems for you - I'm surprised if Outlook users aren't
drowning yet).
As to b... a few bad big email list hosts (yahoogroups for sure) set
replies going to the whole list so that they can sell more adverts.
They don't really care about people who embarrass themselves by
sending private replies to the whole list. I think we should be nicer
and not trick people when they press "Reply" instead of "List-Reply",
but I'll bow to the majority if they're stuck with non-list-friendly
emailers.
Regards,
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worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/
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