On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > Manu Abraham wrote 2011-03-02 15:36: >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm >> =A0wrote: >>> >>> If you hit "Reply", what does the "To:" field say in your mail tool ? >> >> >> That does indeed work. > > OK, so in other words, you never checked that, right ? :-) It's not the question, that I have checked or not, imagine that have had the habit of taking your morning coffee for many years, that habit will just stick, whatever you do. Even if you try to stop it, it will simply come over automatically, as though like a reflex action. > I've been on many mail-lists and never had a list where > "Reply" didn't work. That would, IMHO, be a brooken list > server software. The list server should behave as a > single-point-of-contact where you get mails and reply > back using a simple "Reply". Generally what I see and understood, also accepted by a very large community globally (Linux) where I hail from; - On ML's, where the ML volume is quite high ~ 50 - 500 posts, people do even request that they be CC'd, such that they can reply to the posts that is relevant to them. For example on some Open source ML's, appropriate people are expected to CC'd. Lack of doing so, they might not even know such a post existed. Some people even do consider that a lack of CC to them on certain areas, such as patches to certain drivers etc, is simply not courtesy. - On lists where the volume is quite low, it does indeed make sense to Reply to the ML server alone, since these posts are archived and easily searchable over a period of time. Just as a simple example: If someone posts patches and/or require help with regards to drivers that I have written with regards to a certain OS, the poster could possibly expect a faster reply, IFF he has CC'd myself. If not, I will check the ML posts in the regular spree that I am on, as opposed to a faster response with a CC. > =A0> Maybe it is good to have such preferences >> mentioned someplace. > > The piclist works in a standard/normal/expected way, no reason > to document that specificaly. :-) Again, there is confusion by stating "standard/normal/expected" way, though I very well by now understand that your preference is as well a simple "Reply". --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .