Re: [META-LIST] Now: perennial "reply-to-all"

Stan Hoeppner
2010-08-17T18:15:33Z

Christoph Hellwig put forth on 8/17/2010 4:01 AM:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:32:02AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
>> On Montag, 16. August 2010 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Why does "everyone" on this list "reply-to-all" when 99% of the time
>>> it is totally unnecessary, redundant, and potentially ruffles a
>>> sender's feathers, as in this case?
>>
>> I'm also on several lists, but the only list where reply-to-all is used
>> is this one - so I followed the way it's done here without having
>> questioned why.
>
> It's done by all Lists in the Linux development universe, and it's the
> only sane way to handle a list. We don't require people to subsribe to
> post to the list, and keeping everyone in the To/Cc list means it
> arrives at those people as well. In addition it allows subscribes that
> are on tons of lists to prioritize discussions they're actually involved
> in personally by getting a copy in the inbox that can be replied to ASAP
> while also having an archived copy in the list folder. Every other way
> to run a list is simply insane.

Thanks Christoph. That makes sense.

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Stan