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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Confusion over 'you wrote'/'fred wrote'
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2001-12-30 11:21:35
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On Sunday 30 December 2001 04:33, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Saturday December 29, 2001 03:35, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 December 2001 06:58 am, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > But which is a more common behavior?  Crossposting mailing lists,
> > > or privately replying to an author?
> >
> > For anything beyond a normal "reply" I use "reply all" and throw
> > out those addresses that I don't want.
>
> Try that on a non-munged mailing list.  Try having do to that for
> every single reply you send to a mailing list.  Multiply that by a
> few lists and see how much extra effort that becomes.
>
> Even among developers, I think non-munged lists are pretty common.
> Sourceforge lists appear to default that way.  Of the non-KDE lists
> I'm on, half act that way.  Is my experience really that exceptional?
>
> I think what kind of mailing list is more common should determine
> what's on the toolbar.  If lists that don't do Reply-to are common,
> then Reply to list belongs on the toolbar, even if Reply to All
> remains.  Toolbars are supposed to make the common tasks quick. 
> Would anyone argue that replying to a mailing list isn't such a
> common task?
>
> However, if munged lists truly are more common, then I'm wrong for
> pointing to the url, and a reply to sender should be made available.

- - if you can think of a good icon for reply-to-list which clearly 
conveys it's purpose then we'll add it to the action list so that 
everyone can decide for himself if he wants it in his toolbar.

- - but why do you need an icon for this in the first place. why don't you 
simply use the shortcut key [the default being 'l']. this is much 
faster than moving the mouse to the toolbar, finding the right reply 
icon and clicking on it.

- - reply-to-sender is possible via the rmb menu on the senders email 
address. as you anyway seems to use the mouse to reply to messages why 
don't you simply use this feature.

- - if a reply-to header is set then the reply MUST go to the reply-to 
address. a reply-to-sender will only confuse all those 
non-mailinglist-experts. after all, on private mail reply is identical 
to reply-to-sender [and if not then it's not identical on purpose], but 
joe user won't know this and will be very confused by this additional 
reply-to-sender option.

regards,
ingo
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