On 12/01/2018 05:49 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote:
- Michael A. Peters:
Netiquette posts are just someone's opinion, and they often don't take into account the vastly different way different types of minds work.
Mailing list netiquette has been around for decades, for good reasons. If Joe User's mind "works differently", Joe needs to make the effort to adapt to existing conventions instead of expecting conventions (and thereby other people) to change.
-Ralph
That is the opinion of some.
But - I would wager that over 95% of the time when someone hits the reply button on a list post, their intent is to reply to the list.
If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not match common usage and is the problem.
I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work, not should most people need to.