On 02/12/2018 03:05, Michael A. Peters wrote: [...]
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.
Even if it's 99%: What is the lesser risk if someone get's it wrong?
If netiquette is why that sometimes fails, then netiquette does not match common usage and is the problem. The netiquette is more than just a piece of "documentation of most of
- all folks on the mailing list.
Apart from the situation that people send mails over the mailing list with "for X.Y." in the subject and no one knows how private that should be. Obviously, it's absolutely not private because it goes to - at least the people think how it should work".
Please bring serious an factual problems with the netiquette as such and not just "with some MUA it's not possible" (because it's possible with really *every* MUA - with some it's just a little more work than with others) or "most people ignore it because ...
I would wager that most people are clueless to how mail headers work, not should most people need to.
... they are clueless".
In consequence, the clueless people should define how things should work?
Well, there are better solutions than that IMHO.
It's quite the opposite: People should have a *basic* knowledge of the tools they use - for email e.g. the To:-header has no technical meaning.
Let's hope that people who do not know how to use a tool - e.g. like a hammer - doesn't use that tool in the first place ....
MfG, Bernd
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