Re: replying to list (I give up)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 21 April 2010 14:56, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 08:56 -0400, David McGlone wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 14:42 +0200, Daniel Egeberg wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 14:27, David McGlone <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > I give up. trying to reply to messages on this list is tedious. I can't
>> > > pinpoint whether it's because the list is set up to make replies go to
>> > > the OP or the OP has his reply-to in his mail client set, or most people
>> > > are hitting the reply-to button instead of simply reply.
>> >
>> > Then get a better email client if yours doesn't support "reply to all"
>> > or "reply to group". It's hardly the mailing list's fault that your
>> > client doesn't support that.
>>
>> My email client does support "reply to all", but it's IMHO
>> inconsiderate.
>>
>> Think about people that have to pay for every Mb they download. "reply
>> to all" causes these people to have to pay for duplicates.
>>
>> Now if somebody on this list was paying for their downloads, then you
>> and I am costing them money by using "reply to all" and now there are 2
>> duplicate messages for them the download.
>>
>> How would you feel if this was you?
>>
>> --
>> Blessings,
>> David M.
>>
>>
>
>
> Did you read the link that David Robley sent on the original thread you
> made?
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> What you're proposing would cause a lot of problems for the sake of a
> few people. And I hardly think that a few emails are going to cause a
> bandwidth issue for anybody. If bandwidth was such an issue, they'd be
> using an email client that only downloaded the email headers first, and
> from there you could easily discern the duplicate messages.

Except it wouldn't cause a lot of problems, now would it? As you've
heard from quite a few others, many mailing lists work using the
'reply-to' ... and have happy users. Most of the points in the doc you
posted a link to are viewpoints from someone that's used to one thing
and hates the idea of things changing - whether or not it makes life
easier (the "It makes things break" for instance ... calling replying
to the list instead of the OP a "break" is rather farfetched unless
you've stared at something you hate for so long you've become blinded
byt it. Then there's the "Freedom of choice": well, where's my freedom
of choice? I can't use 'reply' as I want to, so it's effectively
reduced *my* freedom).

Quick guess is by now, the majority of people clicking "reply" *mean*
to reply to the list but in effect reply to the OP. Using "reply-to"
would help these people. Anyone using "reply-all" would see no
difference. So when you're advocating that many subscribers should
ditch their email client and install Evolution instead of having *one*
email list have it's settings changed a bit ... I start to wonder if
you've considered things from both sides.

Regards
Peter

-- 
<hype>
WWW: http://plphp.dk / http://plind.dk
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/plind
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fake51
BeWelcome: Fake51
Couchsurfing: Fake51
</hype>

-- 
PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php


[Index of Archives]     [PHP Home]     [Apache Users]     [PHP on Windows]     [Kernel Newbies]     [PHP Install]     [PHP Classes]     [Pear]     [Postgresql]     [Postgresql PHP]     [PHP on Windows]     [PHP Database Programming]     [PHP SOAP]

  Powered by Linux