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[Paul Gear]

ken_yap at users.sourceforge.net wrote:

>>Can I just say that when you click reply to a post on this forum, it replies
>>to the originator of the post and NOT the list. This is a problem as lots of
>>advice is lost to the whole community. Can this be changed to default the
>>reply to the list?
>>    
>>
>
>No, the accumulated wisdom on mailing lists is that once in a while a
>reply that was meant to be private will get sent to the list by accident
>and embarrass the participants. Or worse.
>
>Either the OP should set a Reply-To:, as I normally do, or the responder
>should edit the destinations. In any case I always check the
>destinations before I hit send, everyone should. And please check your
>Subject: line too.
>

Agreed, but it's a matter of statistics.  I reply to the list rather 
more often than the sender, and i'm sure most others are the same.  I'd 
estimate 90-95% of replies i make are to the list...

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