Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:17:59 -0800
On 12/30/01 1:40 PM, "Will Gosney" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At 12:25 PM -0800 12/30/01, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
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> All this is very true, Chuq. But I think it's safe to say that just about
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> everyone who is Replying to All is using it as a device to reply to the list
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> without having to copy and paste the list's email address every time, with
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> an email client that doesn't have another easy way of doing so.
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So get a different one or rtfm. Eudora allows you to do this by
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holding down the option key or you can toggle the settings. You can
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get a free download if you don't mind looking at a small ad window at
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http://www.eudora.com/ It appears you are using
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Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 which I am unfamiliar with.
Entourage is the email-plus-PIM application in MS Office 2001 and now MS
Office v. X for OS X. Like Outlook Express 5, out of which it was developed,
it has a sophisticated Mailing List Manager which, among many other things,
allows you to set the default reply behavior to override the list's own
default. That is a great advantage when you subscribe to several mailing
lists, some of which reply to the list by default (as most do) and some of
which reply to the sender by default (as AS-Users does). When you belong to
lists of both types (as many people do), it's very easy to get it wrong, and
hard to always get it right for the particular list. Even if you have a
client that will allow a keyboard shortcut or menu item that does "reply to
sender" or "reply to all" or (?) "reply to mailing list", you have to
remember which to use when. With the MLM you can set ALL your mailing lists
to reply to the list, and you still have cmd-opt-R and a menu item to reply
to the sender. so you never, ever have to think about it. Reply button (or
cmd-R) is _always_ reply to list, and command-opt-R is _always_ reply to
sender.
But I wouldn't dream of telling people what email client to use. People will
use whichever they want. So I wasn't speaking for myself there: I do just
fine, and said so later on in my message in fact. I was just trying to
suggest that people who can't do things like this with their email clients
and use Reply to All as a way of replying to the list should just remember
that it might cause a little bit of annoyance, as it did to Sander, if lots
of other people are also doing the same thing. I'm sure that there it will
still happen, and I'm prepared to be fairly tolerant as Chuq suggested. it
would certainly be nice if every email client had clever ways of dealing
with mailing list's different behaviors.
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Paul Berkowitz