On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Neil Bothwick
<neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 02:54:33 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> It is usually better and prefer the "answer to all" policy as it permit
> to be notified of an answer without having to track the whole mailing
> list.
If I post to the list, I expect a reply via the list. Getting two replies
is annoying, especially if I don't realise the private one is a duplicate
and reply to it before checking the list. One of the main points of a list
is that it is a public discussion, archived for all to see, fragmenting
conversations into private mail defeats that point.
Precisely, except that I'm not as annoyed as some of you seem to be.
Part of the way a mailing list works is that there is always discontent
about the way the mailing list works. This hasn't changed much, if at
all, since I started using mailing lists around 1985.