[D-community-offtopic] "Reply all" vs "reply list"

Andrei POPESCU andreimpopescu at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 12:37:42 UTC 2012


On Mi, 11 apr 12, 13:35:54, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
> Which button should usually be used with mailing lists, "reply all" or
> "reply list"? I have usually used "reply list" when Icedove hasn't given
> "reply all" option.
> 
> I was bored and googled about this and opened seven different results.
> Two of them were related to mailing lists and had different opinions.
> 
> http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html seems to be recommending
> reply all.
> http://www.mail-list.com/reply-to-sender-reply-to-list-reply-to-all/
> doesn't seem to be recommending either of them.

In Debian the typical advise is "CC only on demand", but other lists 
(like the LKML I've been told) specifically insist on reply-to-all.

In my very personal opinion, there are good reasons for all of them, but 
I will go with the community.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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