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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Ideas on Reply-To-List
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-29 22:05:41
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On Sat November 29 2003 17:28, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> The most relevant sentense is: "When the "Reply-To:" field is present,
> it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message
> suggests that replies be sent."
>
> The author (!!!) of the message. The mailing-list software is not the
> author of a message. Therefore there's nothing wrong with an email
> client that tries to figure out what the _author_ of the message
> wanted. In fact one could argue that mailing-list software that sets
> the Reply-to header is violating RFC 2822 because it makes it
> impossible for the receiving email client to figure out the real intent
> of the author.

If you want to be anal about this I then I suggest you create "Reply", "Reply 
to Sender", "Reply to List" and "Reply to All". Put them all under a single 
toolbar button (like the check-mail button) with a simple click resulting in 
"Reply". Reply then defaults to "Reply to List" when a list-with-reply-to-set 
has been detected and "Reply to Sender" in other cases. Oh, and you can add a 
bunch of configuration options to specify how "Reply" should work.

And whatever you do, I suggest you do it right the first time (in KDE 3.2 that 
is), instead of delaying it till a later release. There is really no excuse 
for asking your users to put up with half thought out stuff for a whole year.

Cheers,
Waldo
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