To answer the original quesion: I use gmail, which doesn't yet fix the problem for me. I suspect if enough of the other silent gmail users request the feature it will be addressed in the near future. Generally speaking I would prefer that the default my replies to be sent to the public mailing list, with as little fuss as possible. If I intend to engage in namecalling or discuss secret national security issues I'd just as soon make an effort to single my intended listeners out.
On 1/13/06, David Nicol [email protected] wrote:
There you go again, espousing absolutes.
There may be mailing lists with different whole points. The culture of each mailing list is different. There are mailing lists where one is expected to post only announcement-level news, and discussion concerning particular announcements proceeds in off-list discussions, occasionally sharing the results of these caucuses with the main stream. For instance. With your definitions the point of such a list would be introducing people to have off-list discussions.
I'm reasonably certain that everyone understands that the list is for linux and technological related purposes. With a reasonably good client the volume of this kind of mail we see on the list isn't overwhelming. I realize it might require a change in mailing list manager (quite the gamble given that the old one was broken for nearly a year), but I've seen listserv managers that will give subscribers plenty of options on how delivery is done, including the to and cc fields.