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[Darren Sessions]

I agree completely.

  - Darren


On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Brett Nemeroff wrote:

> I agree with you here. Even if it's "different" than the way most of  
> your other lists work, "Poster" simply makes more sense. And I don't  
> think another way should be picked because the poster might do the  
> wrong thing. I think it's up to all of us to reply to the list as  
> appropriate.
>
> For me, If I'm reading a message from a specific person, and I hit  
> "reply" I'm replying to that person. If I hit "reply to all" I'm  
> replying to everyone. This just makes sense to me.
>
> And if you set to "The List", it's very hard to reply to the poster.  
> Since neither reply to reply-all will get you the email of the poster.
> -Brett
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Dan Pascu <dan at ag-projects.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
> > "normal" is a fuzzy word. I can do the change, not a problem, but  
> just
> > to past what mailman says:
> >
> > "Where are replies to list messages directed? Poster is *strongly*
> > recommended for most mailing lists.  ->  Poster     This list
> > Explicit address "
> >
> > Currently is "Poster"(which is recommended) and you suggest "This  
> List".
> >
> > To be honest I consider logical the "Poster" setting as primarily  
> I'm
> > talking with a person on the list and not to the list.
> >
> > But any other opinions are welcome here.
>
> "The List" is a worse choice than "Poster" because it limits my  
> choice of whom
> I want to reply to and makes it more complicated to reply to the  
> sender alone.
> When using "The List", if I want to reply to the sender alone, I  
> need to
> employ manual copy/paste of his address, after I manually delete the  
> list
> address which was automatically added when replying. This is awkward  
> and
> annoying.
>
> With "Poster", I can easily use reply, to reply to the sender alone,  
> or "reply
> all" to send to both the poster and the list and the list will make  
> sure the
> poster will receive a single copy anyway.
>
> I don't think nowadays it could be an issue to anyone, as I can't  
> imagine a
> mail user agent without a "Reply all" function.
>
> --
> Dan
>
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