On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 05:52:12 -0400 "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It would appear that on Aug 1, Michael Jennings did say: > > > On Sunday, 31 July 2011, at 18:04:46 (+0100), > > Steve Jones wrote: > > > > > I'm with Paul on this one. > > > > This is incorrect. Adding reply-to is bad behavior. Here's why: > > > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > > > The most important reason being that it becomes essentially > > impossible for most e-mail clients, including GMail, to "reply to > > author only." This can make for very embarassing public posts which > > were not meant to be, among other things. > .........<snip>.......... > > > The default position should be that all responses to mailing list > > > messages go back to the mailing list, unless the user decides to > > > override it. > > > > How? How does one override it? Most e-mail clients only have 2 > > options: Reply and Reply All. There is no "Reply to Author" button > > in the majority of cases. > > I'm decidedly NOT taking sides on the issue of whether or not > Reply-To: munging is a good or bad idea. That's as dangerous a debate > as the fabled vi/emacs holy wars {may the great vim prevail} and > should be avoided if at all possible. That is a decision for each > list's owner/"admin team" to make. And in any case I can deal with it > regardless which way a mailing list is configured... But I'm curious > about the sweeping statements about "most e-mail clients"... I choose > to use alpine, and detest every gui e-mail client I ever tried. But I > don't know what is and isn't "possible" with "most" of them. > > That said, I always thought that it should be a simple matter to use > an email client's reply to all option and then selectively delete any > undesirable address from the To: & Cc: lists... But you seem to imply > that most email clients don't allow the To: & Cc: lists to be > modified once a reply is started? Is that really so? In which case > I'm REAL glad I like alpine... I can't speak for "most" email clients either, but one in the gui camp that I have used for a long time (claws-mail) has reply, reply to all, reply to list, and reply to sender. It also allows to add, edit, or remove any number of To:, CC:, Bcc:, and even Newsgroups:. So does not matter to me which way this religious war goes. Yes, it's possible to use a real email client for gmail. :-P -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
