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Debasish Ray Chawdhuri debasish.raychawdhuri at gmail.com
Wed Oct 10 16:26:48 PDT 2012

Since the question was asked on the mailing list, other people following the mailing list should get the answers. There is no hide-and-seek here. Most of the time you should not contact the sender directly. Just in case you do (for whatever weird reason, is it too bad to be shared?), you can still copy address of the sender.

You may be thinking of the mailing list as some kind of help forum, where you are the expert and and resolve people's problems, so you give an answer only to them. But that should not be the intention of the list. It is more made for a community discussion. When you give an answer, other people should be able to see that answer and ask more questions or possibly challenge your answer. This is how a community should work.

Why do you want to deal with individuals?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Jim Graham <james.graham at oracle.com> wrote:

Indeed I prefer it this way as I don't always want to burden the list with my replies.

This list gives the option, but "Reply-To-List" lists don't have any convenient way to reply to just the sender... ...jim

On 10/10/12 12:06 PM, Tom Eugelink wrote:

ps. why doesn't the list set the mailing list as the reply to?

Grrr. ;-) In Thunderbird I have a "reply" and "reply list" button, only for these mailinglist emails. Tom

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