how to use a mailing-list

[Reindl Harald]

Am 07.04.2012 19:31, schrieb Craig White:
> On Sat, 2012-04-07 at 18:21 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> register on a mailing-list usually means people
>> are sending and replying to the list-adress and
>> that there is no reason for "reply all"
>>
>> there is no "i want mails twice" setting
>> so nobody can imply "reply all" is the right action 
> ----
> just like you really can't stop people from top posting, sending html
> format mail to lists, you can't prevent them from reply all either.
> 
> You can however use a reasonably intelligent mail server such as
> cyrus-imapd which does offer duplicate suppression so this is a
> non-factor.
> 
> But bemoaning those who reply all is as pointless as berating those who
> top post but that doesn't stop those with little better to do.

correct, but there will always be new users which are not
realizing that they are doing something wrong and they can
not realize if no one is telling it

but they are not the real problem

the real problem are people answering in this topic "The normal way
to reply is to use reply all" because they are learning resistent,
have no idea how to use a mail-client and tell users which maybe
partly understood what they are doing wrong that they do not



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