On 1/12/06, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
address. The confusion over the difference between these two practices leads many people to oppose what is IMO the best way to manage a mailing list.
The whole point of an email list is group discussion. The default reply should include the list and the individual. With both addresses in the To and/or Cc fields, it's easy to delete one if desired. At a minimum, each user should have the option to set this behavior in the listserv software.
There you go again, espousing absolutes.
There may be mailing lists with different whole points. The culture of each mailing list is different. There are mailing lists where one is expected to post only announcement-level news, and discussion concerning particular announcements proceeds in off-list discussions, occasionally sharing the results of these caucuses with the main stream. For instance. With your definitions the point of such a list would be introducing people to have off-list discussions.
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