On May 10, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Marj Kibby wrote:
If your mailing list is for class discussion, then set the default 'reply to' to the mailing list. Use the list 'signature' to advise your students that replies go to the list and give your own email for private replies.
There were/are good reasons for this advice.
As a other folks have suggested, the "reply to list" has a nice side effect of creating a sense of place or community; this very discussion shows how valuable members of this list find that sense. On May 10, 2009 11:43:48 PM EDT (CA), Charles Ess wrote:
This will eliminate emails, intended to be sent privately to another member of the list in response to a list post, being accidentally broadcast instead to ca. 2,000 list members. - and thereby entering our uneditable archives on Dreamhost.
While I can appreciate this concern, I doubt that much safety will result from the new rules. Just this weekend we heard of Jérôme Bourreau Guggenheim, a French television employee, who's "private" email to an MP ended up on his boss's table and got him fired. [/.ed at In France, Fired For Writing To MP Against 3 Strikes, Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 10, @08:03AM, from the nous-sommes-desolees dept., http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/229217 ] ---