> Dan Langille wrote:
> > This is standard practice on this list.  If you wish to participate,
> > please ensure you account for this practice.
> 
> You may see it as "standard" practice, but it's certainly not
encouraged
> practice, and probably only a handful of users do it that way (i.e.
> wrongly). Some people lazily hit "reply all" and don't bother to check
> what they are doing. I admit I've done it myself on occasion, either
> through haste or forgetfulness or distraction, but I do at least
__try__
> to do it properly!
> 

I hit reply-all all the time. What MTA are you using that can't sort out
duplicates for you?

The reason I use reply-all is that the sender is not necessarily going
to receive a copy in their inbox otherwise. They may be subscribed in
'digest' mode, or may have their subscription configured to not receive
a copy at all, which allows them to post and then read the messages via
the archives. I imagine that wouldn't be an uncommon configuration
either - say you were responsible for a server running Xen, also running
Debian, using Bacula for backups, Apache as a web server, MySQL as a
database, and PHP as a scripting engine, and occasionally asked
questions on those mailing lists when the need arose. You'd spend half
of your day just processing email if you actually received all of those
lists into your inbox!

James

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