Roy Rio wrote: > > Now assume you'll want to answer to the author one out of ten times - then > its 28 clicks (9*3 + 1) vs. 15 clicks (9*1 + 6).
You forget to count the clicks to move from one mail to the next. And the typing that goes on between those steps. You "extracted" some steps in the procedure and ignored others. I compared equivalent operations. But this all is getting off topic and is not that important anyway. How do they say ? "Let's agree that we disagree" ? > > Harald > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Balazic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ross Levis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MP3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:54 AM > Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] The Pause That Documents > > > Ross Levis wrote: > > > > > > David Balazic wrote: > > > > > > >>Why not make the most probable choice the easiest one? > > > >> > > > > > > > >Because it makes replying only to the author a pain-in-the-ass. > > > > > > > > > > It currently makes replying to the list a pain-in-the-ass. > > > > > > > Very hard to double-click the To: field and hit BACKSPACE ... > > > > ( to delete the authors address ) > > > > > > Just double-click the To: field and hit BACKSPACE ... > > > ( to delete the list address ) > > > > ( I assume you mean this as an example of sending the reply > > to the author , in case when Reply-to munging is used ) > > > > Try that again. You will notice that after you deleted the list address > > the message will be sent to /dev/null as there are no recepients > > listed any more. You must either : > > > > - type in the address of the author ( a big PITA ) > > - copy the authors address from the original message and paste > > it into the reply ( a smaller PITA , but still a lot more than > > anything needed in the non-reply-to scenario ) > > > > > > It is "three or one clicks" versus "one or six clicks". > > > > Explanation : > > > > - no Reply-To: munging : > > - reply to list only : > > 1.) click on REPLY > > 2.) select the authors address ( either by double-clicking or > drag-selecting ) > > 3.) hit BACKSPACE > > - reply to author only : > > 1.) click on REPLY > > > > - Reply-To: munging : > > - reply to list only : > > 1.) click on REPLY ( or REPLAY-ALL, behaves the same in Netscape ) > > - reply to author only : > > 1.) select the authors address in the original mail > > 2.) click COPY ( or press ctrl-c ) > > 3.) click REPLY > > 4.) select the list address > > 5.) hit BACKSPACE > > 6.) click PASTE ( or press ctrl-v ) > > > > ( it may be one step less on UNIX where SELECTing and COPYing are one > step ) > > > > -- > > David Balazic > > -------------- > > "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore > Logan > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - - > > _______________________________________________ > > mp3encoder mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder > > > > _______________________________________________ > mp3encoder mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
