[LUNA] Reply-To discussion

[John Price]

OK, I think we've beat that horse sufficiently...

Next order of business...


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Christopher R Key <crkey at crkey.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S™III, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
>
>
>
> -------- 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
> </troll>
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