Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
- Subject: Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr)
- From: Rich Cook <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:23:43 -0800
YAWN! :-)
On Nov 9, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
But even if you don't use the function much, being able to reply to
the sender is useful. If you set the Reply-To to the list, then the
only way to reply privately is to copy and paste their email address.
On 11/9/07, Nathan <email@hidden> wrote:
I understand the reasoning for how it's theoretically simpler this
way, but I've been on so many lists for so long that the reply-to
DOES
go to the list, that I typically (pause while I realize that even
this
time I forgot to push reply-to-all...DANG IT--there, fixed it) don't
remember to press reply-to-all on the two lists that I've ever
encountered that subscribe to this philosophy. What's the point of a
public list if the default reply option is a private message?
Actually, I think that's the basic disconnect between the two
philosophies. The one side makes the assumption that you are equally
likely to reply to just a single person on the list as you are to
reply to the whole list. The other side consists of people like me
who, in practice, never have any use for replying to individuals on
the list with information that we wouldn't want the whole list to
have. So, if you have the mindset that you want all your
list-related communication to be available to the list, having the
most-commonly-pressed button "reply" NOT go to the list just
complicates things instead of simplifying things like the page you
linked to below claims.
I suppose that if you want to be able to often send
sensitive-in-some-way (confidential?) or offensive messages to
individual list-posters, then the behavior we're discussing would
actually be a bonus. Until that person includes your email in a
message to the list, defeating the purpose. To me, that whole
mindset
is somewhat orthogonal to the idea of a "public" list in the first
place, but I can understand why others would disagree.
~ Nathan
On Nov 9, 2007 3:50 PM, James Elliott <email@hidden> wrote:
I can't understand your complaint; this list uses completely
standard
semantics for "reply". If you want to reply to everyone, that's why
your mail program has a "reply all" command. And this way, mistakes
are much less embarrassing and recoverable.
See http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
I'm not comfortable being on lists which break the rules in the way
you seem to want this list to do so.
-Jim
On Nov 9, 2007, at 16:44, Nathan wrote:
(Alright, trying it again with "reply all". Dang non-standard
reply-to!)
~ Nathan
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| | >Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr) (From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr) (From: Nathan <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr) (From: Nathan <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Announcing 1.2a8 (stability, monitor hotplug, "are you sure you want to quit?", xephyr) (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>) |