Re: Reply To

"Kevin J. Butler" <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:23:45 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.zaurus.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Andi Scharfstein wrote:
> Hi,
> I am not convinced. I consider it a main feature of a mailing list
> to be able to communicate with a community of people with little
> effort. 

Easy communication, and high signal-to-noise ratios.

 > Actively trying to remember to change the address every time I
> reply to a posting is not what I think of as little effort, although
> people may disagree with me here. 

No need - Reply to All is plenty easy, and almost always acceptable. 
This also guarantees that "digest" subscribers get their replies 
separately, rather than possibly missing them inside a digest.

This also reduces "accidentally posted to the list" issues, keeping the 
signal ratio high.

kb