Reports

[Michael Leone]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>:
>
>> 2009/8/18 Michael Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com>:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Derek Atkins<warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> You should be asking the list, not me.  I've cc'd you there.
>>>
>>> Perhaps then the default reply for a *list* question, should eb a
>>> *list* reply. Then this wouldn't happen with such frquency, and you
>>> wouldn't have to mention it in each of your posts.
>>>
>>> Yes, I know all the arguments against it; they're all wrong. :-) And
>>> yes, I know it won't change. Just felt like pointing out the obvious.
>>
>> +1 on that, it is a right pain to have to remember to do Reply to All
>> rather than just Reply as for most lists, whatever the purist
>> arguments.
>
> Ummm... the list defaults don't matter when the OP sends a question to
> me personally...  This wasn't a reply to a question on the list, this
> was an original post of a question, sent directly to me...
>
> Changing the list configuration WONT HELP with this problem.

In this one specific case, no. Overall, undoubtedly yes.

>> Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
>> You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.


See? :-)