Hi, On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
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With a list server attached "Reply-To", _NOT_ANY_ handcrafting would be necessary _ANYWHERE_.
This is plain wrong.
You are wrong.
If there is a reply-to set by the server, the email will always go back to the list whether I use the "Reply" or "List Reply" functionality.
Yes! Remember, you are communicating through a mailing list server! The list is the default goal!
So I need to edit the address field if I want to send a private answer (and yes, this happens quite often). If I use the "Reply All" functionality, I need to edit the address field as well in this case because I have to remove the list address. I definitely call this "handcrafting" and it disproves your statement cited above.
Your "if" is about 0.1%. The other 99.9% is: reply to the list. So the choice is to configure the list server so that either 1 or 999 hands have to craft to get it right.
On the other hand, if the server does *not* insert a reply-to, then there is really no handcraft necessary. I can use "Reply" to send a private message only, I can use "List Reply" to send my email to the list, and I can use "Reply All" to send a private email with a CC: to the list. Perfect!
So maybe you have found the appropriate mail tool for you. Lucky guy.
Now you ask everybody who uses a list reply to give up this functionality just because you want it in a different way? That's a bit odd...
What exactly would you have to give up? Plain nothing! You simply would need one more move in 1 of 1000 cases, but the other 999 cases would get a chance to do it right without extra thoughts and extra actions. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org