From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13966 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cwg-dated-4706b1d0ee55baea@DeepEddy.Com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mail-{Reply,Followup}-To considered harmful Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:00:21 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <19980213160046.29629.qmail@backstroke.deepeddy.com> References: <199802130637.BAA01940@spot.cs.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_280396340P"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153236 12126 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:33:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Coleman , exmh-users@sunlabs.Eng.Sun.COM, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07607 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 08:04:05 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA10029 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:02:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAN22118; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:38:19 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:00:31 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA29334 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 10:00:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16457 invoked by uid 504); 13 Feb 1998 16:00:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16454 invoked from network); 13 Feb 1998 16:00:12 -0000 Original-Received: from backstroke.deepeddy.com (qmailr@192.12.3.5) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 16:00:11 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29630 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 1998 16:00:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 29452 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 1998 16:00:33 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO DeepEddy.Com) (cwg@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Feb 1998 16:00:33 -0000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0 12/22/97 Original-To: Keith Moore In-Reply-To: <199802130637.BAA01940@spot.cs.utk.edu> X-Url: http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13966 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13966 --==_Exmh_280396340P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [ Removed nmh-workers@math.gatech.edu ] > From: Keith Moore > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 01:37:07 -0500 ... > Imagine a user interface that makes it easy for people to choose where > their replies go. It has two buttons: one labeled "Reply to Author" > and another labeled "Reply". > > + "Reply to Author" always defaults to the address(es) in the From > field. But the user interface also displays the address from any > Reply-To field (grayed out and thus disabled), and the responder can > click on a button to enable the Reply-To address and disable the From > address. > > + "Reply" always defaults to the address in the Reply-To field if there > is one present. If not, it uses the addresses in the From, To, and Cc > fields. But even if the Reply-To field was present, the addresses > from the From, To, and Cc fields are still visible (grayed), and you > can click on any address to toggle whether the message will be sent to > that address. > > (Of course, you still need to be able to type in new addresses.) > > This way, you could read a message, decide to Reply, and if you didn't > like the defaults you could change them with a couple of mouse clicks. > > I've talked to a guy who did human factors studies with this kind of > email interface; he said it works quite well. > > Of course, it's a bit more difficult to provide this functionality > with a command-line UI like mh has. But it's certainly seems possible > to improve on the current behavior. Well, seeing as how one of the two places that I'm reading this thread is on the exmh list, Is there anybody out there who's interested in implementing this for exmh? If nothing else, it might be worth having a discussion of what it would look like in sedit. Chris -- Chris Garrigues O- cwg@DeepEddy.Com Deep Eddy Internet Consulting +1 512 432 4046 609 Deep Eddy Avenue Austin, TX 78703-4513 http://www.DeepEddy.Com/~cwg/ --==_Exmh_280396340P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNORuFJaQnaaFII2dAQHQkgL/ZcfIjdaJMH6abMj1+bt9BlThA+gzbOdf 7h7Cjykit8Oy7ERLt6J60GoGl8n+gMxtBuZlEQc56NfzrlFhDfDIrlydACAp6Snw 9D3YKUvd4Q2WAFhsOHY7vAMoFfVCF1cV =4/9/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- --==_Exmh_280396340P--