Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 11:52 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/20/2015 2:48 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 14:37 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> No, the point is you apparently can't simply acknowledge that you > >> mis-spoke/made a mistake. > > > > Tanstaafl, it it will make you h

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 11:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/20/2015 8:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote: > > Thunderbird isn't quite like that, but when I reply to a message from > > the list I am given 3 options: > > > > Reply > > Reply All > > Reply to List > > Do you mean that you see a single butto

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/20/2015 2:48 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 14:37 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> No, the point is you apparently can't simply acknowledge that you >> mis-spoke/made a mistake. > > Tanstaafl, it it will make you happy, I _officially_ acknowledge that I > made a mistake/mis-spo

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/21/2015 12:55 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > If I were writing an MUA, I'd make each addressee a button which > replies to them only.[1] For the explicit reply button, I'd > automatically put the list-post and author in To:, provide an obvious > delete button on each (as Gmail does), and pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/20/2015 8:38 PM, Richard Damon wrote: > Thunderbird isn't quite like that, but when I reply to a message from > the list I am given 3 options: > > Reply > Reply All > Reply to List Do you mean that you see a single button with a drop-down that provides these three choices? If so, then you

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
> On Mar 21, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > - Original Message - >> From: "Lindsay Haisley" > >> In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program >> will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came >> from a list and offer a "Re

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Don, 2015-03-19 at 17:45 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: [...] also +1 for the "quote only relevant and answer inline directly below it" style - an email is written once and read (hopefully;-) more often so it is actually extremely unfriendly (because time killing) to all others to make a mail not as

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread William Bagwell
On Saturday 21 March 2015, Larry Kuenning wrote: > Settable by which user?  The sender or the recipient? Recipient of course, sender has no way of knowing what the recipient prefers. > And wouldn't a default of removing all but one level of quoted text make > nonsense of some posts?  E.g. in the