Reply-To-All vs. Reply-To-List (was: Ubuntu on Medion Machine)

[Jan Claeys]

On ma, 2006-07-03 at 14:04 +0300, Steve Alexander wrote:
> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > On Jul 3, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>> Matthew, you keep responding to people who post ubuntu questions, but
> >>> it looks like you just send mail to the list, not to the poster. :)
> >>> ...
> > 
> > It's impolite to send the same person two copies of the same message,
> > and if they weren't subscribed to the list, then their original messages
> > would have been moderated, and rejected for being off-topic.
> 
> As a data point, I always use the reply-to-all button in my email
> client, on any mailing list.  I have had, to date, just one complaint.
> 
> Politeness doesn't really come into it. 

Actually I consider it to be impolite and annoying (back when I used
Thunderbird with it's broken reply-support I edited the destination
headers by hand before replying to a list--if _I_ use a broken mail
client _I_ have to minimize the influence on the recipients), but it's
also impolite (and too much work ;-) ) to complain to every message from
everybody who sends me 2 replies...


-- 
Jan Claeys