Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

Fri Nov 29 06:08:52 PST 2002

>1. Have you accidentally sent a private reply instead of posting to
>    the list?

Once. First post I made. It was kind of unexpected, so next time I checked 
the "To" headers in my reply and got it all straightened out.

>1'. Have you accidentally posted to the list instead of sending a
>     private reply?

The way this list is set up, that would take effort. (I consider this a 
Good Thing, having accidentally posted to other lists.)

>2. Have you received an accidental private reply that was meant to go
>    to the list?

Nope. But then, I'm new, and staying out of the religion debate.

>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. I assume that other people are smarter than me, or at least have been 
around longer than me and know how things work.

>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?

Nope.

>5. How do you feel about the Reply-To behavior of this list?
>    Do you
>   + like it

I'm a fan, but Eudora allows me to "Reply to all" and delete the sender's 
address so that it goes to the list. I've not seen a "Reply-to-list" list 
where "Reply to all" will catch both the sender and the list addresses.

(Of course, having said that, I nearly sent this off-list.)


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