[SCA-Dance] Are you on Facebook?

Justin du coeur jducoeur at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 14:29:55 EST 2014


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> Do so many
> people really not know about Reply All and editing out the people who
> shouldn't get it?


The issue has little to do with "know about"; it has everything to do with
default behavior.  People typically go with defaults most of the time;
that's what defaults are *for*.  Therefore, what you choose as a default
determines much of the behavior of an environment, and the decision should
always be made deliberately and with care.  Choosing "send to originator"
instead of "send to list" as the default is a *choice* to favor lower
volume and less conversation.  It is not an unreasonable choice, but it
absolutely a deliberate decision with consequences.

Seriously -- this is UX 101...

-- Justin
Who spends a non-trivial amount of his professional time thinking about
defaults


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