If i were to choose a post from that debate, i would rather look at this one: http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2006-December/011925.html everyone makes mistakes, no one has ever been sued as best as i can tell. i deleted the reply-all button long ago, btw, using it is just really bad practice. I only have the option of reply-all if i explicitly choose it from a pull-down list. See i configured my mail program to better handle my personal inadequacies as I understand them, so as not to impinge upon others who wish to do otherwise. We all can configure our own email to do as we wish, i don't see why we need to possibly hinder the group for theoretical individuals who might harm themselves with their own misconfiguration or poor choices. I mean i see the reasoning for protecting people, but shouldn't they protect themselves first? On May 14, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Åsa Rosenberg wrote:

Jeremy is asking for a justification for the change. I think that Charles has already explained it... but to me the problem is quite simple. With "reply to list" as default we currently have no way of ensuring that a mistake does not end up in Google two days later. Until we figure out if it is the right solution (or find another solution) perhaps a slight readjustment of having to press another button in your mail program could be worth sparing those people their embarrassment?

Also bear in mind the problem is not new, it has been discussed previously on the list. See this thread for example from 2006 http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2006-December/011917.html

--- Asa Rosenberg Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg

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