Hi!
On 02/12/2018 23:58, Noel Butler wrote:
On 02/12/2018 11:00, Hendrik Boom wrote:
There's an extensive email etiquette post somewhere on the net explaining why setting 'reply-to' to the list is a bad idea.
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
Good netizens also check and edit the To: and Cc: lines.
public, they are for the masses - the membership - the subscriber base, never seen the point in replying privately to a list post, since the
Lots of people actually ignore private questions in such public "environments" - simply because of the said reasons (and to make the time more useful).
answer deprives the list membership of, the answer, so you avoid getting 1500 people ask the same damn question.
Especially since search engines make it much more easier to find questions/problems and answers/solutions in mailing list archives.
MfG, Bernd
Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at