On 30/03/2023 17:49, Larry Garfield wrote:
Please no. As it's a destructive operation that you can't easily work
around in email clients. Trimming recipients is doable.
Then we need a cultural shift to get people to trim more, because I got two
copies of your email, which show together in a thread even when I filter email
separately.
Also, some guidance on who to trim and when.
I count 7 people who *could* be in the reply list for this message if it
hadn't been trimmed (Rokas, George, Larry, Tim, Lynn, Christian,
Derick); I have no idea who is interested in getting a duplicate
notification of this reply, so tend to assume that the polite thing is
to trim all of them.
On 30/03/2023 17:59, Tim Düsterhus wrote:
The mail client can't detect whether I'm the intended "direct"
recipient of a single email within a large thread. Especially not if I
didn't previously participate in it, but someone wants my opinion or
expertise.
That's actually a good argument for *not* using Reply All by default,
because as the person *sending* the message, deciding when to *add* you
as a direct recipient is considerably easier than deciding when to
*remove* you.
Regards,
--
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
