<sarcasm> Well, Christopher, maybe you could tell us in which RFC, DIN, IEEE or whatever the "right" behaviour is defined. RFC-822 and RFC-1123 don't address this exact issue. </sarcasm> This is not Windows, here. This is Linux, or have you forgotten? It is as close to a democracy as any OS will likely get. If the majority thinks it should be one way or other, then that way is a close to "right" as you are going to get. Originally I agreed with Bruce on this issue. However, after reading the history of this issue, I support the reply going to the original sender and not the list. However, Bruce's opinion is that the other way is better, but it does not make it wrong. What Chip Rosenthal is doing in that article is stating an *opinion*. Besides, who is Chip Rosenthal any way? For the answer check out: http://www.unicom.com/people/chip/. (Sorry, Chip, if you are reading this. I agree with your "Principle of Least Surprise" and Principle of Least Damage" , but it is *still* just your opinion.) On the other hand, based on a lot of discussion on this list, most people feel that it is **wrong** to quote someone without mentioning who is being quoted. Oh, wait a minute! Isn't that what you just did? Just what are the Mailing-List Police going to say about that? ;-) Regards, jimmo Vielleicht sollest du mit deinem Ton etwas aufpassen wenn du von einer suse.com Adresse antwortest. Es gab schon einige Beschweden über den Verhalten von SuSE Mitarbeitern in letzter Zeit. (Translation available on request) Christopher Mahmood wrote:

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But I agree with you 100%. Every other list I have *ever* joined works by just hitting 'reply',

Those lists were broken then.

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but some of the S.O.B.'s on the SuSE list think that their way is the 'pure' way.

No, it's the correct way. Please read http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html before saying silly things.

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And I think I'm going to drop that list just because of it. More because of the attitude than having to spend the time to make sure the mail goes to the right place. (but of couse, they don't care)

On the contrary, we care very much. Replies don't go to the list because we care and refuse to punish the majority because a few insist on using broken mail clients.