[HacktionLab] Reply to to person, rather than list

[Carl van Tonder]

Alan,

The second link is the middle in the sequence of "Reply to: munging
(not) considered harmful" posts; the first is Chip Rosenthal's and the
third is Neale Pickett's in 2001 (which I posted earlier). Neale's
response to Simon Hill's defence of munging is that the whole issue is
solved once and for all by RFC 2822.

Re: the activix discussion that you mentioned, I don't think that the
lack of munging "valorizses individual communication over the
collective"; instead, it encourages people not to become better-informed
about the technology that they use; surely we should encourage the
opposite? The culture of having conversations in public is a social
construct, not a technical one, and it could be encouraged (as on many
of the most successful FOSS lists) by social rather than technical
means.

Regards,

Carl

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 12:16 +0000, Alan Dawson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48:02AM +0000, ben at bristolwireless.net wrote:
> > I prefer replies to automatically go to the list and not the original sender.
> 
> 
> I remember this same discussion on the aktivix lists some time ago ...
> 
> https://lists.aktivix.org/pipermail/aktivix-discuss/2003-September/001210.html
> 
> has some interesting points about keeping the discussions within the community
> 
> and to respond the reply to considered harmful there is
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20000613173132/http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
> 
> 
> So i'm with Ben here... if you're going to say it... say it to everyone.
> 
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