On 12 Oct 09:58, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
MJ Ray wrote:
Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:54:47PM +0100, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
Oh, and by the way, I keep forgetting to do reply all and delete the original poster in order to reply to the group. This is unlike every other group I belong to. is it not about time we followed suit?
No. :)
Slightly longer answer is we've had this conversation many times before it's very unlikely to get changed.
Adam
Yes, the Luddites are still in control.
In control of one email client, perhaps? Why not upgrade to something which supports the July 1998 mailing list headers RFC 2369, so a reply command can work properly?
It's over 12 years old. Soon it'll be learning to drive.
Amazed,
Ah, a reply from the chief Luddite no less.
Why don't We change to reflect what the rest of the world is doing instead of sticking out head in the sand.
Because the rest of the world is *NOT* doing what you are saying. You apparently aren't on as many lists as me. The debian lists work in the same way, most technical lists (not hosted on google groups) that I'm on work the same way.
Correct is "List Reply", "Reply" and "Reply All", being seperate functions, with "Reply" being *sensibly* set to *only* go to the original poster.
I'd rather by default my mail went to a single recipient when I hit reply than it going to the list, it makes more sense... otherwise how do you do an offlist reply without a whole lot of hassle?
We're not luddites, we're respecting headers that have been available for more years than I bother to remember and that mail clients that don't suck as much have been respecting for a while.
If you *really* want it to have that behaviour why don't *you* modify the mail to have the headers *you* want as it gets to you. Or haven't you got access to your MTA? MUA doesn't support being able to DTRT?
Accuse not us of being luddites, unless you actually bloody understand the meaning of the word. We use technology. We use it correctly. You appear to have a misunderstanding in the form of "I WANTS IT THIS WAY AND I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE ELSE IT WOULD MAKE MY LIFE EASIER YOU'RE ALL C**TS AND I HATE YOU".
This is not rocket science, it has been discussed numerous times before, and there's only *one* list I'm on that actually does it the way you suggest, and that particular list is one that we see a "shitload" (technical term) of accidental reply to the lists *with* a subject line edit to say "Offlist" because the list doesn't behave as everyone is used to.
Now, please stop accusing others of being luddites because you can't be arsed to configure your own mail client.
Thanks,