On Fri, 2016-09-09 at 10:19 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 04:42:31PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Would it be fair to request that the default action when hitting
> reply (not reply all) in an email client for this list be a private
> email rather than emailing the list? IIRC this is a per-list mailman
> setting.
I'd prefer it not to, because I'd prefer discussion to stay transparent
and open and not drift off into private threads. (We do have a separate
list for private council topics, and try to use it rarely.) If
consensus is to change it, though, I'll follow what people generally
prefer.
Máirín wasn't asking for discussion to drift off into private threads¹.
AFAICT, all she was asking was that you stop hijacking her mail client
and making it do something other than what she asks it to.
Her mail client, like fairly much *all* mail clients, has one option
for a private reply and another for a public reply.
Users press the button they want, according to how they want to reply.
But on *this* list, they both do the same thing².
Which means that when Máirín hit the 'private reply' button in her mail
client, it was subverted to send her response in public, which she did
not intend.
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dwmw2
¹ My interpretation, of course. I do not presume to speak for Máirín.
² And we wonder why some users get confused and don't always press the
correct button... :)