On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> You sort-of missed the point - if people were using vi & sendmail to send
> replies, then indeed almost nobody will reply to both the person on the
> list (except the people who _deliberately_ want to do that, but most people
> don't).
Huh? I'm not sure why you're saying that.
I use sometimes pine, sometimes mutt and sometimes MH. In each case,
I usually either reply to the person specifically, or reply to the
list in general and the person -- unless I remember that this
person does not like to receive mails twice. I'd do that even if I'm
using vi+sendmail.
Of course, the real problem is that you never know what you want to do,
because you never know what the person on the other side likes you to do.
Maybe I like to have replies go both to me and to the list. Maybe not.
Maybe I'm subscribed. Maybe I'm not. There was a thread about it in
Debian-Devel, and the agreed solution was that
a) people should use their MUA to add a Mail-Followup-To: header.
b) people who reply should configure their MUA to honour
Mail-Followup-To:.
> It's like asking why most (if not all) messages on this list are in English,
> and then replying "the wonderful thing about the internet and client/server
> protocols, is that you never know what's on the other side. I can send a
> message in Klingon if I want".
The correct analogy would be "Why are so many e-mails in English? In mutt,
I can write messages in Klingon". "Well, I can write messages in Klingon
in vi+sendmail. If you want me to write you in Klingon, please add a
Reply-In-Language: header, and I'll set my MUA to honour it and
auto-translate.". Accept that auto-translating English->Klingon is AI
complete, and thankfully, configuring MUAs correctly isn't.
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Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- 95855124
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