OT!! Reply to Group

[Ric Moore]

I'm forever replying to sender as an individual, instead of the 
group-sender by hitting "reply". Someone hinted that this was some old 
flame war, etc. Out of PURE ignorance and being fairly new to this 
provenance, is there a reason behind it that makes sense?

The various Debian lists are the only lists I've encountered since the 
days of Slackware floppy installs that acts in this fashion hitting 
reply, which replies to individual sender instead of the group-sender.

I'd just like to be less ignorant. Thanks, in advance, for any reasoned 
replies. Ric