[Air-L] Change of default reply setting on air-l

[Steve Cavrak]

On May 10, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Marj Kibby wrote:

> If your mailing list is for class discussion, then set the default  
> 'reply to' to the mailing list. Use the list 'signature' to advise  
> your students that replies go to the list and give your own email  
> for private replies.
>
> There were/are good reasons for this advice.


As a other folks have suggested, the "reply to list" has a nice side  
effect of creating a sense of place or community; this very discussion  
shows how valuable members of this list find that sense.

On May 10, 2009 11:43:48 PM EDT (CA), Charles Ess wrote:

> This will eliminate emails, intended to be sent privately to another  
> member of the list in response to a list post, being accidentally  
> broadcast instead
> to ca. 2,000 list members. - and thereby entering our uneditable  
> archives on Dreamhost.

While I can appreciate this concern, I doubt that much safety will  
result from the new rules.

Just this weekend we heard of Jérôme Bourreau Guggenheim, a French  
television employee, who's "private" email to an MP ended up on his  
boss's table and got him fired. [/.ed at In France, Fired For Writing  
To MP Against 3 Strikes, Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 10, @08:03AM,  
from the nous-sommes-desolees dept., http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/09/229217 
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