[OSM-talk] mailing list behavior

[robin paulson]

Lance Dyas wrote:
> leblatt wrote:
>> No big deal, but when I hit « reply » on a talk at openstreetmap.org 
>> <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org> message, it replies to the message 
>> originator, not the list. I have to hit “reply all”, and remove the 
>> originator.
>>
>> On the French ML, I just have to hit “reply”, as in most MLs. I use 
>> outlook as a mail reader. Is this a problem ?
>>
> No I use Thunderbird and it has the same effect for me.. OpenLayers is 
> the only other mailing list with this stupid
> setting and it annoys the hell out of me.. If I want to reply privately 
> to a public conversation I should have to go
> out of my way to do that.... not the other way around

iirc, the problem was caused by non-standard (but 'simpler') behaviour 
of e-mail clients/mailing lists, and people becoming accustomed to that 
behaviour rather than the standard way of doing things. i imagine 
microsoft were involved somewhere, but others are probably as bad.

now some mailing lists are set up to do things the 'standard' way, and 
some to do things the 'expected' way, so there is a perception that some 
are doing something stupid

there are many things wrong with the world