[LUNA] Reply-To discussion

[Christopher R Key]

That's the problem with this generation. Lazy. Why in my day, we had to type out the response in binary, submitted on punch cards, and then pray we had time left on the timeshare. All this while facing an uphill walk in 3 feet of snow just get to the server room!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch


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-------- Original message --------
From: Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.us> 
Date:  
To: Linux Users of North Alabama mailing list <luna at lunagroup.us> 
Subject: Re: [LUNA] Reply-To discussion 
 
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> > Typically, in a group like LUNA, replies to posts are intended as 
> > edification for the group. By changing the default behavior to reply 
> > to the sender, as opposed to the group, means that either a lot of 
> > messages are sent twice (once to the user, then, oops, once to the 
> > group) or never received by the entire group. In the first case, the 
> > original sender receives two copies of the reply. In the second, the 
> > rest of us answer the same question the same way 32 more times back 
> > to the original sender.
> > 
> > I like reply-to the group. I'd rather the EXCEPTION be to reply to the
> > sender.
> > 
> > -Bob
> > 
> > PS The default behavior seems to be reply-to-sender, at the moment. I had to
> > press "Reply-to-All" after I started this message.

Reply to group, like every other mailing list on the planet & 
Yahoogroups. 

You had to click something after you started the message? I had to 
read, think, and respond to a prompt before I started typing this!

*shakes fist*

*trips over something unseen, knocks over a stack of punch cards*

Oh noes! My memoirs!

--
Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
Disinformation Analyst
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