[governance] CORRECTION: List Posting Rules: Unsolicited CCing is

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<b1161f110908201020o38a11e01sdf98ca4063daa5f6 at mail.gmail.com>, at 
10:20:38 on Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Sylvia Caras <sylvia.caras at gmail.com> 
writes
>> Putting list-members (who are generally easy to identify) on the CC list ...
>
>I'm using Gmail.  When I Reply' , the To: line has the list address,
>plus the address of the individual who posted, Roland, (which I just
>deleted).  When I Reply-to-all, in addition are all the addresses on
>the CC line.

My client differs (and is more consistent with what I'd call 
"traditional-values") in that it has two buttons "Reply" and 
"Follow-up".

The former is used if you want to address the individuals, the latter if 
you want to address the list.

It doesn't have an option of "Reply to all" (which would be "Both reply 
and follow-up"), because that's regarded as evil (confusing) as per my 
earlier comments; and users really do need to be encouraged make their 
mind up who their audience is.

>There are consequences for various list configurations.  Perhaps the
>governance list default should be changed to only reply to the list?

There's clearly an interaction between the way a list is configured, and 
the way people's email clients are designed.

My own preference is to keep things simple. This is a list, and replies 
should go to the list.

If people want to make off-list replies I suggest they also train 
themselves (which helps the recipient too, when it arrives) to put the 
words [off-list] at the beginning. That breaks the routine enough, that 
it brings a reminder to check exactly who you are sending to.
-- 
Roland Perry
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