[Dialogue] List reply behavior

[W. J.]

Tim, I suspect a few of us are getting so up in years that it's easier to hit the Send button w/o bothering to decide who gets to read what we wrote. Or maybe some of us never got that far in Email 101.
I've been struggling for years to keep up with all the replies that were personal notes to someone else and not actually addressed to me. (At least I am reassured that the senders are still alive and clicking their keyboards.)
So maybe as a favor to these folks you could reset the default. It's nice to read what our colleagues are writing, but it would be even more wonderful to be spared the excess messages.
Marshall


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 From: Joan <jfknutson at aol.com>
To: dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net 
Sent: Friday, October 4, 2013 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] List reply behavior
 


I vote for the change: the reply defaults to just the sender and see how it works.  Joan Knutson



-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Wegner <tim at tswegner.net>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Fri, Oct 4, 2013 1:03 pm
Subject: [Dialogue] List reply behavior


This is one of my VERY FEW list messages about the list itself. <grin!> I have a question for you all. 

Both of our lists are set up so that when you reply to a message, the reply (by default) goes to the whole list, as opposed to just the person who posted. This is often what people want, particularly if they have in mind continuing a dialogue that they want the whole list to see.

The down side of this is we ALL get very many three-word messages with replies like ""great!" "Glad you're home", "Our prayers are with you". Good messages, but probably not optimal for the whole list to see

The way I have the lists set up in this regard is NOT the recommended way for just this reason. I could change the behavior so the default would be that your reply GOES TO THE PERSON, not to the whole list. 

Pro - this would cut the short messages way down.

Con - If you really meant to make a substantive comment to be sent to the whole list, you would have to edit the "To" field to do this. I am sure some people would send messages just to the sender by mistake.

I would appreciate feedback on this, either to me me, or if you wish, the whole list.

What I am inclined to do is just change this behavior so the reply defaults to just the sender and see how it works. I can always change it back if folks don't like it.

I'm just sending this to dialogue, but I'll implement whatever we decide on both lists.

Tim

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