[Qt-interest] [OT] Replying to Messages

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 07.05.09 09:22:06, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
> 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.

Thats (IMHO) a bizarre way of seeing this. Replying to the list makes sure
that not only the poster sees the answer but everybody else too, making it
easy to correct your mail if needed, supply additional information and
making the whole conversation archivable. And IMHO you can expect the
original poster to read the list and check for answers to his questions.

And if you send both, then you're basically spamming the original poster
with two versions of your mail, needlessly.

Andreas

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