[Qt-interest] [OT] Replying to Messages

[Srdjan Todorovic]

Hi,

(replying to list only to satisfy Marco Borm...)

2009/5/7 Marco Borm <>:
> Jonathan Wong wrote:
>> Reply-all is good. The person you reply to gets a personal note too, I think, in addition to the
>> copy on the mailing list.
>>
> No it's not! I don't want any personal mail response to a message in the
> list and I think to most here will agree with that.

But that's (in my opinion) a bizarre way of working, is it not? If you
post a question on the list with a problem, I can then respond but
send the reply only to the list. And then I'm effectively signalling
that I'm not really replying to you, I'm replying to the list and I
don't (seem) to care that you get the response.

Is that not almost akin to saying "Here's the answer to your question;
by the way, stop listening in, I'm not talking to you!" ?   (talking
*about* you, not *to* you sort of argument)

Ok, I'll acknowledge that people have different ways of working and
thinking (and a lot of that is probably influenced by their culture).
So perhaps one of the problems is that there's not much of an
automatic way of finding out how people want their replies.

And I guess that's why lists usually have netiquettes (where's
Qt-interest's one?), so that there's a consensus.
So what is the consensus on this list?

Thanks,
Srdjan