On 2 Oct 2007 at 8:51, Mark H. Wood wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:58:23PM -0400, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > Tony Fountain wrote:
> > > Mark,
> > > 
> > > I did not hijack a thread.  I started this one myself.
> > 
> > No you didn't. You hit reply to an old message deleted the content
> > and changed the subject. Please don't do this.
> 
> Possibly he's an innocent victim of today's over-helpful MUAs.  If I'd
> never seen or been told about the Message-ID:, In-Reply-To:, and
> References: headers, I'd think that the above actions had wiped out
> all traces of the previous thread, and I would think I'm being
> efficient by letting the MUA copy the list address for me instead of
> typing it myself.
> 
> Authors of gooey MUAs would do well to support listmail better by, for
> example, providing a button to "send new message to the list that
> reflected this message", or enabling the association of a folder with
> an address and providing a button for "send to this folder's
> associated address".

Most mail clients I've used just allow the user to click the From address and 
it opens up a 
new message to that address.


-Steve O.



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