- From: Jon Bosak <Jon.Bosak@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:47:32 -0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
[Terry Allen:] | [Tim is getting an extra copy of this because I haven't yet seen | the results of the vote on list behavior.] Er... Right. I was just now getting around to that. The question was whether to keep the current behavior of the mail server (autoreplies go to the individual) or change it to work the other way around (autoreplies go to the list). The case for changing it is that we get rid of duplicate replies from people who won't take the trouble to change the "To" and "cc" fields in their reply header, which takes a few seconds extra for the sender but if not done is exceedingly annoying for those of us who post a lot or have to maintain personal archives. The case against changing it is that if it's changed, then it's easy to accidentally send private replies to the whole list, which is rare but potentially disastrous. The final vote was: Yes, change the server to autoreply to the whole list: 3 No, keep it the way it is and get tough on people who deliberately cause trouble: 18 A couple of those voting No also noted that many people consider copying the original sender as well as the list to be proper netiquette, which means that a get-tough policy has to be accompanied by a lot of explanations and warnings for newbies. We've just been through enough discussion of this to make further explanation unnecessary, but those of us who become easily annoyed by duplicates will have to remember that people coming into the process and people who are just being absent-minded sometimes have their autopilots set on "polite" rather than "inconsiderate." Jon
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