* Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> [09-13-15 18:06]:
On Sunday 2015-09-13 23:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-09-13 21:20, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
There is no reason to answer to "all" past a convenience for broken clients not recognizing list mail needs response to list and an inconvenience on the reader who in many if not most is being asked for help or information.
There are many clients that do not have a reply-to-list button. For instance, Alpine doesn't, and Thunderbird/Seamonkey did not for many years. Most (All?) webmail clients do not. Tablet's mail do not, or I haven't found one that does.
Apart from the trivial answer "they forgot implementing it", you must consider the "nomail" feature (as e.g. implemented by GNU mailman), which, in essence, makes it such that you only receive mail *for subthread(s) you participated in*. That, of course, relies on the other party to not withhold mail from individual entities.
How do you participate in a thread which you do not start and cannot see since you have not previously participated in it? Or do you mean that you receive *only* the first post of a thread? I thought my chosen client was quite capable but the only nomail feature I have ever heard of is that I don't receive *mail* unless I fetch it??? But I am fairly new to computers :^).
And that's why Reply-To-List sucks. It's better to have duplicate mails and deal with them somehow, than to have none at all to process.
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