[talk-au] mailing lists and replying to them.

[John Smith]

--- On Thu, 6/8/09, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Um... Gmail works perfectly. I'd call it popular.

You contradict yourself, you say you hit reply to all later in your email, that's not what Sam was talking about.

> Erm... can't say I've used yahoo mail but its spam filters
> should be
> smarter than that. Don't forget to say it's "Not Spam" -
> you should be
> able to teach it.

I do, but it doesn't seem to do much other than move the email to the inbox, but it isn't just emails from myself ending up in the spam folder.
 
> Um... if you post to a mailing list you should be expecting
> others to
> give their opinion, which appears to be all that Sam was
> doing.

Yes and I was giving mine about being practical not forcing everyone to do something only a minority of email apps actually handle properly.

> was".  And I
> disagree about it "confusing new people". "Reply to all"
> seems fairly
> self-explanatory to me - it means "reply to all".

They don't understand that they need to hit reply to all, that's what started this thread in the first place, they thought hitting reply would reply to the list, not to the person that sent it.