--- baiewola@netscape.net wrote:
Just to provide another perspective...
Most of the other lists I participate in ask that you respond personally to the individual who sent the original email. That person is supposed to summarize responses back to the group. This significantly decreases the volume of email traffic going to everyone... but it won't work if you have a lot of lazy people on the list who don't like to summarize.
Or people who subscribe to lots of lists and have full-time jobs that don't include being a human mailing list. I mean, what are message threads for? If everyone posts to the list, a person can quickly scan through a topic to see the responses. Relying on the indidual recipients to summarize the replies (best replies? all replies? what's not pertinent to him may be pertinent to another list member)? I prefer a collaborative model - all can see what all have contributed. And my 2 cents is: I prefer 'reply to list' to be default. Rob Boyd __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com