[blml] This is how Reply should work

[Brian]

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On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:31:08 -0500
"Jerry Fusselman" <jfusselman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Once more, apologies.  Was meant for the group...
> >
> 
> Not entirely your fault. When replying to a post, can we please have
> the software put blml at rtflb.org in the To field and the name of the
> poster in the Cc field?  Then Reply would work the way most of us
> generally wish it would.
> 

Well, I'd like to challenge the "most of us". 

When I click "Reply", my mailer puts the **list name** in the "To:"
field (though it actually uses blml at amsterdamned.org, not
blml at rtflb.org). It doesn't put the original poster in the "CC:" field,
but I, for one, am glad that it doesn't. 

The idea of a public mailing list, or even a Usenet news group for that
matter, is that those people who are subscribed **read the damn list**.
What *is* the point of sending a second copy of a reply personally to
the previous poster? It's a nuisance, because if you happen to be
looking at your inbox rather than your BLML folder (assuming you use
folders) then it looks for all the world like someone sent you a
private reply, but then you find out it's only a nonsense copy of a
public posting. 

And yes, before anyone else who's been on the net for a while reminds
me, I know there were some near-religious wars back in the early days
about "courtesy copies" of postings to newsgroups. I thought that one
had been settled some years ago. 

So please, Henk, play around with the list headers to try to get
everyone defaulting to 'reply to list' by all means, but (IMO, at
least) please **DON'T** encourage the sending of an extra copy to
the previous poster.  


Brian. 

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