<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All,<div><br><div><div>On 08/08/2009, at 7:44 AM, Noel Butler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> Hi David,<br> <br> On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 22:09 +1000, David Hughes wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> <pre>You know, the number of complaints I get about the "reply to list"
setup is amazing. I also think it's not ideal. I'd be happier with
the list setup with reply to sender (as is nanog, c-nsp, ietf etc etc
etc). Thoughts?
David
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</pre> </blockquote> <br> My opinion is, if someone on a public mailing list says something, then they should expect the reply on the list.<br> <br> Think someone asks a question about a rare and unusual configuration, someone answers that person, answering to the list benefits all (archives/fresh ideas blah blah blah), answering direct, nobody is any the wiser, the correct way for a list to be setup is reply-to list and apart from the handful of lists you mentioned, that's how it is on every list I'm subscribed to, and on those that it isn't half the people end up replying to all so we get two copies of everything :)<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I also agree.. the problem overall I guess is its a change from what people expected on this list from the start. But if you are going to say something a bit sensitive then yeh you should double check .. mistakes happen but also how much useful knowledge will we hide from the world because the opposite happens - people send personal e-mails instead of list ones.</div><div><br></div><div>Most lists the "default" mode should be reply to list .. (as in what you want to do, regardless of the settings), this list probably differs from that norm a little more than most but it's also much easier in most mail clients to hit 'reply to all' and delete the list address than it is to find the list address to put in there when you hit reply; and people are usually mindful of those cases (i.e. request for NOC contacts and the like)</div><div><br></div><div>My $4.53</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Trent</div></div></body></html>