[TOS] Fwd: teachingopensource.org mailing list memberships reminder

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Kevin Cole - kevin.cole at gallaudet.edu wrote:
> As a general rule, when replying to a question or comment, I like to think
> that even if my reply is intended for a specific individual, that others
> might benefit from my knowledge / juvenile humor.  Or, even better, if my
> reply contains a glaring error, the teeming masses will catch the error and
> correct me, teaching me something as well.  In other words, I believe in the
> "many eyes" theory which is part of the whole open source dogma.
> Sending privately to a specific individual is the exception to the rule.
>  Given that, for me personally, it's a much rarer occurrence, I'd prefer to
> have the default reply-to automatically go to the list rather than the
> poster.
> That said, I now have my mail client default set to "Reply to all" which
> usually ends up putting both the list address and the poster address in the
> reply header somewhere, allowing a relatively quick "cut" of the unwanted
> address.

That option, "Reply to all" as a default, is not available on my mail
client (I checked) and, therefore, neither is it on ALL clients.

I'm definitely working on getting a better set of tools for Internet
interaction.  At present, I'm watching the FreedomBox Foundation
efforts.