Re: Reply to list ONLY!

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Andy McKenzie <amckenzie4@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 4:24 AM, Michelle Konzack < > linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote: > > > Why do most of you respond always with two messages: > > > > 1) to the list > > 2) a reply direct > > > > It is annoying, specially, if I read my personal folder first > > and think, someone respond to me privately and answer accordenly > > even if the message should have gone back to the list... > > > > Thanks in avance > > > > > This may come off as rude, but I hope it won't, since that's not the > intent. Nevertheless, here goes: > > I'm just going to be blunt, here: I stopped posting questions here (and on > most mailing lists), for the most part, because in forums the discussion of > the actual problem is almost never derailed by people griping about top > posts or reply/reply-all/reply-to-list. That happened in one of the first > threads I was following: the person asking never got an answer, because it > turned into a week of people yelling at each other about posting > etiquette. I haven't seen that as much recently, but I've got to say it > wasn't a very welcoming environment. > > A lot of us use whatever client we use because we like it, or it's simple, > or whatever other reason. Since there are no standards, we mostly just > accept the way it works and move on with our lives. As long as people > aren't insisting on HTML messages with the blink tag, I don't really care > whether they top post or reply twice. Why? Because my client (the GMail > web client) makes it clear what text is new, and only shows me one copy, so > it doesn't really make any difference in readability or time use. > > Andy > +1