On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:45:46AM +1100, Anthony Baxter wrote:
Ed Leafe wrote 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.
Look, the simple answer to this is that all decent mail reading software gives you the choice to either reply directly to the poster, or to the poster and the list, or to the list.
What is "all decent mail reading software?" Apparently a number of zope@zope.org subscribers do not have such software. As long as we are playing the "who are you to say" game: Who are you to tell them they should change their mail reader? I'm on a number of lists that set Reply-to: and we simply do not have these discussions there. Zope lists are the only ones I'm on where I routinely get personal replies that were apparently intended for the list, and routinely see threads about this same topic over and over. +1 on Reply-to. I regard this as optimizing for the common case. :) -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com