On 12/2/18 5:58 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
Lots of posts around about this, all self serving :) There may of course be an RFC floating around, but I admit to never having bothered to look, because good netizens reply to list, lists are public, they are for the masses - the membership - the subscriber base, never seen the point in replying privately to a list post, since the answer deprives the list membership of, the answer, so you avoid getting 1500 people ask the same damn question.
Reply-to-all is a requirement for public mailing lists that do not require posters to be members. Like everything at kernel.org. Failing to reply-to-all will exclude non-members, and will get you deserved abuse on such lists.
Other lists have other policies and/or conventions. What's so hard about following the conventions of the lists you participate on? Especially if requested by the list owner?
Phil