On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:34 PM, Martijn Pieters wrote:
To the list admins - why should we constantly have to deal with this? Please change the default to "Reply to List", no matter what the folks at Mailman think. It makes no sense for the default to be the action you *don't* want.
Except where the default is what others *do* want. It is a question of gaining experience with your mail program and lists in general, whatever the default is anyway.
If someone posts a question, how do you know if they have received an answer yet? I would say that for questions I've posted, well over half of the replies were off-list. Many of those times, someone had already answered me; the second poster could have saved their time if they knew that an answer was already given. And on a design point, if I ever developed an application and gave it defaults that required my users to "gain experience" in order to learn not to use the defaults, I would not be in business long. I also host lists for thousands of users, with "reply to list" as the default, and have not run into any problems as a result.
I personally prefer the current setup, and I know others do too. Besides, if I change the default now, it'd confuse all the veteran posters too. I see no compelling reason yet to make a change at the moment.
I don't see why "veterans" would have any more trouble adapting to such a change than newbies would have adapting to the current system. And why do you prefer to receive two copies of every reply to any post you make? ___/ / __/ / ____/ Ed Leafe http://leafe.com/ http://opentech.leafe.com