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[Randahl Fink Isaksen]

+1 from me. Well said!

R.


On Oct 11, 2012, at 1:26 , Debasish Ray Chawdhuri <debasish.raychawdhuri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since the question was asked on the mailing list, other people
> following the mailing list should get the answers. There is no
> hide-and-seek here. Most of the time you should not contact the sender
> directly. Just in case you do (for whatever weird reason, is it too
> bad to be shared?), you can still copy address of the sender.
> 
> You may be thinking of the mailing list as some kind of help forum,
> where you are the expert and and resolve people's problems, so you
> give an answer only to them. But that should not be the intention of
> the list. It is more made for a community discussion. When you give an
> answer, other people should be able to see that answer and ask more
> questions or possibly challenge your answer. This is how a community
> should work.
> 
> Why do you want to deal with individuals?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Jim Graham <james.graham at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Indeed I prefer it this way as I don't always want to burden the list with
>> my replies.
>> 
>> This list gives the option, but "Reply-To-List" lists don't have any
>> convenient way to reply to just the sender...
>> 
>>                        ...jim
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/10/12 12:06 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> <sidebar>
>>>>> ps. why doesn't the list set the mailing list as the reply to?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Grrr. ;-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In Thunderbird I have a "reply" and "reply list" button, only for these
>>> mailinglist emails.
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
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