From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2508 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: replies Date: 20 Aug 2000 20:51:27 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <14741.8774.386846.462340@bitmuis.thuis.nl> <39952723.740F14A4@pobox.com> <39958723.6F016F12@gmx.net> <399C3AE2.56F23053@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393297 9417 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: NTG-ConTeXt mailing list In-Reply-To: Berend de Boer's message of "Thu, 17 Aug 2000 21:20:02 +0200" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2508 Berend de Boer writes: > Ed L Cashin wrote: > > > > Munging the email headers is a kludge to support broken email > > clients. > > > > An email client should provide a "reply to all" feature which will > > reply to the author and the list. > > Having to hit a different button depending on broken mailing list > servers is my idea of a kludge :-) In one situation, the user is empowered: if all the headers remain intact, then the user can reply to the author, or reply-to-all. Hitting different keys to do different things is a natural part of computing. The alternative is to change the headers. When that happens, if I hit "reply" in order to reply to the author, then I get the wrong thing, the list address, in my header. Lots of embarrassing emails have been posted to lists because of that. If the headers are changed, then I have to delete the wrong header from my outgoing email, go find the author's real address, and retype it or paste it into the headers. It shouldn't be that difficult to reply to the author. When I reply, it shouldn't go to the list, because the list didn't write the email. Regarding the extra copy produced from replying to all, that is normal and is called a courtesy copy. If someone doesn't want to receive courtesy copies, then there is a special header that can be added to outgoing mail which many mail clients will respect by not sending the courtesy copy. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/