[ADMIN] Plea for sanity (was:Re: [Zope] Re: full-text retrieval app)

[Ed Leafe]

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?

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