[MLB-WIRELESS] RE: list configutation

[Tony Langdon]

> It was probably me.  Certainly I remember posting a URL to 
> the list with
> some sane discussion on the topic.  Here it is again:
> 
> 	http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> 
> And for the dissenting opinion (which I only just found):
> 
> 	http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
> 
> Personally I'm with Chip (#1) but I'm just one of those aging Unix
> dinosaurs who subscribes to the principles of good 
> engineering and prefers
> to fix the root cause of problems rather than beating away at the
> symptoms.  ;)

As I said, a religious argument.  My main beef with the "reply to all"
feature is that it's reply to all, not "reply to list".  replying to all
leads to cc: proliferation, which can be a bigger pain than a misdirected
message...  I maintain that the MUA (i.e. just about everyone out there) is
somewhat broken.  There really needs to be 3 options:

1.  Reply to sender (basically the current "reply" option)
2.  Reply to List (a new one which doesn't work at all, unless replying to a
list)
3.  Reply to all (obvious!).

> 
> YMMV.  List admins, do what you will, but remember - you have 
> been warned!
> And no, I don't derive pleasure from "I told you so".

LOL

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