> Well, it won't necessarily convince anyone, but let's have a > little poll: > > 1. Have you accidentally sent a private reply instead of posting to > the list? yes > 1'. Have you accidentally posted to the list instead of sending a > private reply? No, although I have done this on lists that set the reply-to to the list rather than the author > 2. Have you received an accidental private reply that was meant to go > to the list? Yes, altough less frequently than intentional private replies. > 3. When you get a message that was sent to you instead of the list, do > you feel obliged to query the sender to ask him or her if it was > meant to private instead of to the list? No. Often I can tell from context that the message is indeed for me. > 4. Has the Reply-To behavior of this list caused you confusion when > posting to other mailing lists, perhaps even causing you to > accidentally send a private e-mail instead of posting or vice > versa? Actually the reverse. Having been a longtime subscriber to the continuing time list and the CT-Forum off-topic offshoot list, it took me a couple weeks to get really comfortable with it. At this point I post regularly to both lists, and while my principal mail clients (MS Outlook 2000/2002) don't allow me to setup rules for how to override the list reply-to settings as other subscribers have mentioned, I manage fine with reply for private replies and reply to all, delete author's address for public replies. One nice feature with the current behavior here, is I don't have to go digging for the author's address when I do want to make a private reply. > 5. How do you feel about the Reply-To behavior of this list? > Do you > + like it I'm somewhere in between these two > + don't much care Casey