Re: Thread hijacking

Unintentional private replies and private replies with the list in the
CC are too different things. The first is hardly a violation of
anything, it was a mistake. The second one however is probably the sort
of stuff before a flame war gets started.

Unfortunately some lists are set up so a simple reply will go only to
the poster, so one has to remember to do Reply To All.  It is easy to
forget which list is which and do the wrong sort of reply.   The
gnucash-user list is an example of this, in the mail footer it has:

That is the way things were in the beginning. It is not 'unfortunately'
at all.

Please remember to CC this list on all your replies.
You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All

Why it is setup like this I have no idea, it makes it easy to make mistakes.

Because it is RFC recommended. It would appear that only lists like
ubuntu-users that seem to want to discourage private/direct replies are
setup otherwise.

The Sun Managers, RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora lists behave like
ubuntu-users so the latter is not the exception that you are implying.

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