[MR] Email System - Re: Help with Court etiquette?

[Anthony Bryant]

Siegfried wrote:

>However, it has a great benefit.   Having it set up this way makes it a 
>conscious effort to reply to the whole list.
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Maybe it's just me, but that's wrong. My "conscious effort to reply" is 
to hit the reply button. For EVERY group. Only this one has to be 
"different." If I didn't want to reply, I wouldn't reply. And I've very 
seldom (like one in a hundred) ever had a reply that was specifically 
intended to go ONLY to one person. When that's the case, that's the 
person I send the e-mail to.

The purpose of an e-mail group is to communicate and discuss. I don't 
grok the idea of a default that automatically chokes off any potential 
for discussion by channeling a reply on an e-mail group to a single 
person rather than to the whole group.

>The other way ends up making many more 'meant to be private emails' go 
>to the list.  Since the default is to go to the list.
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That's bad on the people for being careless, then. We've all done it. 
But on a group list, diverting a reply to "private" should be a 
specially selected option, not the frikkin' default.


Effingham