On 12/01/2018 05:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:> > There's an extensive email etiquette post somewhere on the net > explaining why setting 'reply-to' to the list is a bad idea. > > Reply-to is intended for the sender to explain that replies shouldn't > be sent to the obvious sending address, but to another address. > This is essential if, say, the sender is temporarily away from home and s using a friend's email service. > > It is unfortunate that there are user-agents that do not provide the > reply-to-list' option. And that there are mailing list programs that > do not provide the proper list-headers to indicate the mailing list > address. >The problem though is that then muscle memory with keyboard shortcuts result in reply going to the user instead of list. Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take into account the vastly different way different types of minds work. Just as an example, I have a deaf friend who hates bottom posting because the way captions always work is equivalent to top posting - new content pops up above the old content, so the flow she expects is opposite but netiquette nazis scream at her when she top posts.
* Michael A. Peters:> Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take > into account the vastly different way different types of minds work.Mailing list netiquette has been around for decades, for good reasons. If Joe User's mind "works differently", Joe needs to make the effort to adapt to existing conventions instead of expecting conventions (and thereby other people) to change. -Ralph
On 12/01/2018 05:49 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:> * Michael A. Peters: > >> Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take >> into account the vastly different way different types of minds work. > > Mailing list netiquette has been around for decades, for good reasons. > If Joe User's mind "works differently", Joe needs to make the effort to > adapt to existing conventions instead of expecting conventions (and > thereby other people) to change. > > -Ralph >That is the opinion of some. But - I would wager that over 95% of the time when someone hits the reply button on a list post, their intent is to reply to the list. If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not match common usage and is the problem. I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work, not should most people need to.