[antlr-interest] a request about "reply-all" to list

[Anthony Youngman]

Okay, I'm top-posting, which I actually think is naff, but unfortunately
(a) I don't have any choice about mail-client, and (b) I don't have any
choice about how it's configured. (Oh, and bottom posting is just as bad
- they both indicate a lack of concern about other people.)

The fact is, nettiquette was thrashed out as a very workable setup by
people who knew what they were doing. Things only got screwed up when a
couple of big corporations let hordes of clueless lusers onto the net.

Oh - by the way - which server are you going to "fix"? Because as far as
I'm concerned, Ter's server has nothing to fix, and I don't know what
other server has anything to do with this list.

Actually, there might be something to fix. I *think* list servers aren't
supposed to muck about with message ids, and any sensible mail client
should handle duplicate messages. But I guess that's too much to ask for
a lot of programmers ...

At the end of the day, the list is designed to "fail safe". I'm on
plenty of others that don't, and it gets embarrassing the amount of
private mail that ends up where it shouldn't be ... or the lists that
WON'T let you "reply sender" so you *have* to reply to the list even
when it ought to be taken to private mail :-(

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
[mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Scott Stanchfield
Sent: 01 June 2005 02:12
To: 'Maurice van der Pot'; antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] a request about "reply-all" to list

Ahem. 

One server. Many users.

Where does it make sense to fix the problem. Hmmmm...

Oh, I know, let's blame the many different clients that the many
different
users like and use.

If you find top-posting annoying, the server should allow you to
reformat
messages (like this one)that are only top posts. Some folks like
top-posting, esp if reading individual mails. I realize it's harder for
digest-readers, but the constant page-forward requirement of bottom
posting
makes it hard for single-mail readers. In short, the server should be
smart
enough to have a reformatting option.

Later,
-- Scott

> Maybe you should be blaming your mail client instead. The 
> client I'm using allows me to define lists I am subscribed to 
> and has 3 options for
> replying: reply (to author only, which should be the 
> reply-to), list reply (to the list address that I defined) 
> and group reply (to all recipients).
> 
> And while we're talking about things that irritate, I find 
> top-posting and quoting entire messages without using them as 
> context to be quite annoying as well.




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