On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Erik Hatcher wrote: > On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote: > >> It's not a charged issue, it's simply a harmful but entirely >> unnecessary practice. For a much more eloquent explanation, see for >> example >> >> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > bah! reply-all sucks, it ends up duplicating mails unless you > manually munge the sender list. First, I find identifying and deleting duplicate emails rather trivial than noticing it as an issue. Second, decent mailing list managers will do that for you, for example mailman. > >> Besides, not all email clients have a reply-to-sender feature (mine - >> Apple Mail - for example doesn't), but practically all have a reply- >> to-all feature. > > not true. click on the From and "Reply to Sender". I'm a button feeder, sorry. Obscure features aren't obscure because they are meant for frequent and everyone's consumption. I'm also a huge fan of simplicity in life. Reply-to munging makes things difficult (or call it obscure) that ought to (and can) be very simply, whereas not making things even simpler that are already simple. Finally, I'm also too old to engage in an argument about whether the decision should be mine where a reply to an email that I receive should go to, or that of a mailing list administrator. I also feel fortunate that virtually all of the communities I interact with (no, I'm not a librarian) don't think that there's any debate about that question. -hilmar -- =========================================================== : Hilmar Lapp -:- Durham, NC -:- hlapp at duke dot edu : ===========================================================