Re: [Air-L] Change of default reply setting on air-l
A factual question would seem to be relevant: Will "reply-all" on most email clients go to the whole list? And to follow on others' questions as to the motivation, if it is about email volume, (1) there's still the digest option, (2) anybody done a study on what volumes of email or number of members prompt changes like this or proposals to split a list? Dan Ryan I work at Mills College o 5000 MacArthur Blvd o Oakland, CA 94613 o 510-430-3242 I write at http://djjr.net/papers/index.html I blog at http://soc-of-info.blogspot.com/ I innovate at http://www.innovationexchange.com ________________________________________
2009/5/11 Dan Ryan <danryan@mills.edu>:
A factual question would seem to be relevant:
Will "reply-all" on most email clients go to the whole list?
I'm in agreement with those that the change is not something I'd have chosen, had I had the say. That said, I wanted to reply off-list to someone today, & did, as I always do for other lists I'm on, hit "reply-all" & then realised it was going to him & I just had to remove the list in the cc-field. However, I tend to use "reply-all" as a default, anyway, & then remove extraneous addresses. Someone pointed out that it can be annoying to get two copies - though I believe that it's something [i.e. whether by default you get one or two copies] that can be set in the list-software -can't it? (I know it can for mailman lists). All of that said, is it possible to set it up so that the "reply" puts the list in the "to field" & reply-all puts the poster etc., in the cc-field? I know that in the past, when I've wanted to reply privately I've had to cut & paste the senders address - which is a pain, but equally I agree with those that have said that it's possible that the two way communication may start to decrease (often, of course, depending on what folk's "normal" email behaviour is ... we all have different clients, we all have different approaches as to whether or not we select "reply" or "reply all" (for example, I use Gmail, I have to open up the options to get "reply all", but, my usual behaviour is to select that option ... but, though some have said it's not an extra click ... in Gmail it is) -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator, University of Portsmouth, UK. Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/emmadw SL: Emmadw Rickenbacker
I second all said contra the change, so I do not repeat it. In addition I also learn from the vital discussions. I would not see them if people only replied to each other, right? Answering right now took me three deletes (deleting emma's mail from the TO and Dans too (maybe because emmas reply was a reply on Dan? I do think that most of AoIR is *this list*. ruining it would ruin AoIR. and additionally it is complete nonsense too: if I look for the groups knowledge and write a question to the list: maybe 20 people will answer me separately with the exact same answer? this would not be very helpful, hm? best D Emma Duke-Williams wrote:
2009/5/11 Dan Ryan<danryan@mills.edu>:
A factual question would seem to be relevant:
Will "reply-all" on most email clients go to the whole list?
I'm in agreement with those that the change is not something I'd have chosen, had I had the say. That said, I wanted to reply off-list to someone today,& did, as I always do for other lists I'm on, hit "reply-all"& then realised it was going to him& I just had to remove the list in the cc-field.
However, I tend to use "reply-all" as a default, anyway,& then remove extraneous addresses. Someone pointed out that it can be annoying to get two copies - though I believe that it's something [i.e. whether by default you get one or two copies] that can be set in the list-software -can't it? (I know it can for mailman lists).
All of that said, is it possible to set it up so that the "reply" puts the list in the "to field"& reply-all puts the poster etc., in the cc-field? I know that in the past, when I've wanted to reply privately I've had to cut& paste the senders address - which is a pain, but equally I agree with those that have said that it's possible that the two way communication may start to decrease (often, of course, depending on what folk's "normal" email behaviour is ... we all have different clients, we all have different approaches as to whether or not we select "reply" or "reply all" (for example, I use Gmail, I have to open up the options to get "reply all", but, my usual behaviour is to select that option ... but, though some have said it's not an extra click ... in Gmail it is)
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