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The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as w
by nagrom 17y ago
The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as well. At work, we have people sending the same mail to three mailing lists and then I receive a fourth copy too. Aarrggh!
For a tool that has been around for the last 30-odd years, I am amazed that people are as bad at email as they are. And I'm not talking here about secretaries, or non-technical staff. I'm talking about scientists in a research institute!
- tome 17y agoI blame the mail clients. Most don't have a "reply to list" feature, so respondents end up "group reply"ing in order to make sure the mailing list features in the list of To: addresses. It's lazy, and I hate it, but it gets the job done for them.
- tokenadult 17y agoThe clients have degraded because many list managers are inconsistent with how headers on list messages are set. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There isn't any way, for a given client, to ensure consistent behavior when replying to all lists, and for the lists there isn't any reasonable expectation that all users will have the same client behavior. Things are a mess all around now.
- tome 17y agoMutt lets you define mailing lists, so if you press list reply (Ctrl-l by default) it will know whether to reply to the address the message was sent to.