On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:01:30 -0700, Jeremy Nickurak <not-much@trk.nickurak.ca> wrote: > FWIW, I generally prefer reply-all as the default. In my experience, > when a message is sent to a bunch of people, it's usually treated as a > "forum" discussion where everybody wants to be in on everything. Also, > once you've started composing, it's much easier to delete people you > don't want included than to add people who are no longer referenced in > the new buffer at all. That's a good point. I think that maybe people are wanting to protect against the accidental reply to all when you only mean to reply to the sender. jamie.