On Feb 3, 21:50, Tony Duell wrote:
> > The reasons you give for wishing to change back are the reasons I wish
> > things to stay as they are now. I hit "Reply to All" and the reply
goes to
> > you, and to the list. I hit "Reply", and only you get the reply. I
can
>
> Ah, but that doesn't work properly if you're replying to a message that
> somebody else has already group-replied to.
>
> Supposing you post to classiccmp, and I group-reply. The message is now
> going to classiccmp_at_... _and you_. Suppose Philip Belben then
> group-replies to the message. It now has you, me, and the list as
> addresses. Then Megan (say) group-replies to that. Before long, the
> header contains the address of every 'regular' here. And we all get
> things twice.
>
> The only ways for me to reply to the list _only_ seem to be :
You missed one: "reply-all" and remove the original author's address.
It obviously depends on the mailer(s) involved. With the one I use nearly
all the time (zmail under Unix), if I hit "reply all" then both the list
and original author addresses appear in the "To:" header, and because of
the way that's presented by this particular mailer, it's easy for me to
remove the one I don't want (two keystrokes). However, if I reply to a
followup that someone else has already responded to, and that message has
the list address in the "Cc:" instead of the "To:" header, zmail keeps it
in the "Cc:" and it means two more keystrokes to fix. I can do exactly the
same thing in BSD Mail but it take an extra keystroke or two.
And I apologise not always practising what I preach, i.e. for sending 3
extra copies of an earlier followup :-(
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Thu Feb 03 2000 - 17:33:36 GMT