[OSM-talk] Reply to list

[matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 11:53:33AM -0000, David Earl wrote:
> Is there a good reason why the mailman switch for reply-to-list for the OSM
> lists can't be turned on? The number of times that people accidentally reply
> to the individual is surely far outweighed by the number who intend to -
> nearly all replies are surely intended for the list, yes? I just managed to
> reply to the wrong list, by going Reply, realising I'd got the individual,
> replacing it with talk at ... when it should have been talk-gb at ...

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html lists most reasons better than I
could do.

You should have a "reply-to-all" option in your mailer somewhere.

Personally, I would much prefer for the odd message to fail to make it to the
list, than for a private reply to be broadcast to the world because I forgot to
edit the To: header...! That can be _far_ more embarrassing ;-)

Thanks,

-- 
Matthew