I can't comment on the other mail clients, but I do take issue with your portrayal of KMail/Kontact... Am Dienstag, 15. August 2006 09:38 schrieb Clayton:
First my disclaimer.... I don't really care one way or the other how the Reply-to is set on the list. It's been set to reply to the person rather than the list for years (on the suse-linux-e list), and I'm kind of used to it... but... I do have some thoughts/observations on this. (and I'll probably need my flame retardant clothing, but... I don't care... some things need to be said here....)
[snip] ... 4. _Some_ people are using KMail/Evolution that can also handle the Reply-to list
But KMail doesn't need it with the default configuration and with the current list settings (using SUSE 10.1). I never got on with Evolution - it feels chunky and child-like rather than a professional application...
OK, that's all fine and dandy, but... the reality is... this list's Reply-to behaviour is causing a lot of problems for people - especially the new Linux users who come here for help. If it wasn't causing problems... no one would be complaining. Can't anyone see that? Or are you all so stuck on this pseudo-standard that you cannot see that it's a problem? (it's only a standard if everyone complies with it... otherwise it's all just hot air... and only a minuscule minority complies with this "standard")
Using KMail (Kontact), the "problem" has passed me right by, the list just works, so I am not too worried what the outcome is, as long as I can continue to hit "Reply To" to reply to the list.
... Even within these "list aware" mailing clients you have to know that they are list aware... if you click reply-to in KMail in a mail from this list you get the sender.. not the list address. You have to know that you press L or you have to have edited your KMail button bar and manually added a Reply-to-list button. This behaviour is NOT the default... it is well hidden in the clients.
I just hit the Reply To button and I got opensuse@opensuse.org as the default address... I've never seen or used a Reply-to-list button, just Reply To and I have never had to customise the Kontact/KMail toolbar. -- David Wright Wright Information Services Europa "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org