I am not fond of this approach either. I never find myself replying directly to the poster.
I actually greatly prefer forums which email me a copy of every post with a nice link to the original thread. 95% of the time I do not even need to use the link. The latest posting is enough.
This makes things more organized as accessible.
Dave Coventry wrote:
I am a member of a number of lists, some of which exhibit this
'reply-to' behaviour and I have also managed to adapt... to a point.
Sometimes, however, I do end up replying directly to the poster rather
than through the list. Tellingly, I very nearly sent this post
directly to Serge Fonvilee.
Without wanting to be too controversial, I have generally found that
the lists which have the default reply configured like this do tend to
be those that are dominated by members who are, shall we say, pedantic
about protocol and 'netiquette'.
Personally I would prefer the default reply-to to go to the list, but
I'm not really bothered about it.
My 2 cents.
Disclaimer: If we are not talking about the default 'reply-to'
behaviour of this list, please ignore this post; I came upon the
thread late and it is possible that I am at cross purposes.
Kind reagards,
Dave Coventry
2008/10/17 Serge Fonville <serge.fonville@gmail.com>:
Altough I am not sure what the real issue is,
I do know that on (for example) the tomcat mailing list, when I choose
reply (in gmail) the to: field contains the address of the mailing list.
Based on what I know, this should be relatively easy to set up in the
mailing list manager.
just my 2ct
Serge Fonvilee
