On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Note: this is a comment on Evo itself, rather than the Evo list. > > As someone who posts quite a lot on this list, I'm forever having to > deal with people replying to my personal address rather than the list > address. Of course they should be using Reply To List (Ctrl-L) or even > Reply-To-All (Shift-Ctrl-R) but occasionally they forget and use just > Reply (Ctrl-R) so one has to remind them. I'm sure other frequent > contributors find the same thing. > > An obvious solution to this is to do what Kmail does. When the message > being replied to contains a List-Post header, Ctrl-R should do the same > as Ctrl-L. There should also be a Reply-To-Author command for the rare > case when the reply should be directed to the message Reply-To field, > presumably the author's personal address. > > This would work on lists, including this one, which follow RFC-2822 and > don't do "Reply-To munging". For those that do munge the Reply-To field, > a reply to the author would require some editing, but that's already the > case with these lists so nothing is lost.
That's just munging in a different place. As it is, I have the *choice*: - I can hit Ctrl-R to reply to you alone. - I can hit Ctrl-Shift-R to reply to you and the list. - I can hit Ctrl-L to reply to the list. Just like the people who advocate using a Reply-To: header, you're trying to take away my choices and make one or more of those keystrokes actually do something _other_ than what I wanted. > (Those who follow the Fedora Users list will know there's been a long > thread about munging, which that list does do.) > > poc > > PS If you reply to this, please make sure it goes to the list unless you > *really* want to say something to me personally :-) If you reply to this, please make sure you don't drop me from Cc. I may only look at the list sporadically (or indeed never; I may not even be subscribed -- someone may have redirected your mail to me because they knew I'd be interested). It'd be very rude not to Cc me in your reply. That's why I almost never use the Ctrl-L option on mailing lists, unless I notice that someone asked for it. In the general case, it's much easier for someone to deal with having two copies, than it is for them to deal with having *none*. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
