Correspondence across multiple lists

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (Please reply to either HTML or WHATWG list.)

Dear Anne (and Ian, who recently asked the same thing) --

If those responding to your message(s) follow your wishes,
how are the rest of us (most of whom subscribe to only
one of the two lists) supposed to follow the exchange
of views ?  And why do you both believe that it is
OK for you to post messages to both lists, yet expect
answers to go to only one ?  Why not declare the WHATWG
list defunct, and continue all discussion on the
W3C Public-HTML list, thereby avoiding this problem
completely ?

Philip TAYLOR