[OSM-talk] Reply to list

[Lester Caine]

matthew-osm at newtoncomputing.co.uk wrote:
> 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 ;-)

This is a long running saga ;)
The bottom line is that the CLIENT software should be able to be set up 
to work how we want to work. If I hit reply or compose on a news group I 
get the news group. It would be nice if the same could be SELECTED for 
folders that store list mail rather than bodging of return addresses and 
having to remember is this a 'reply' or 'reply all' list :)
( And I STILL nearly forgot to change it :( )

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