OT!! Reply to Group

[Celejar]

On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:37:39 -0400
Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

As the GNU page notes, it is indeed a religious issue:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
https://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html

Celejar