Re: OmniWeb-l Digest, Vol 33, Issue 2

On  Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:12:50 +0100 Patrick James 
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> Subject: Re: The way this discussion list is configured
> To: OmniWeb <[email protected]>
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> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 16:59:58 +0100, Forrest Corbett wrote
> (in message <[email protected]>):
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>>  This topic comes up every so often. It's called "reply-to munging."  
>>  It's considered a bad thing. I googled and found this site:
>>  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html I didn't read all of  
>>  it but at first glance it seems to give a good explanation why not to  
>>  do reply-to munging.
> 
> Well indeed it does make sense. I guess I'll retract my request :)

I suppose my preferred mail client--GyazMail--like all the mail clients 
I've ever used, with one brief exception, comes under the category 
"less capable" since it has no "Reply to group" and just choosing 
"Reply" addresses the response to the list rather than the sender.

I'd never thought about this, believing what I have experienced to be 
the norm, but having read that article I can see the point. Although it 
does seem to me to be somewhat geeky--if Elm is anything like Pine, the 
only exception mentioned above (though I never discovered this feature) 
which I was forced to use briefly and towards which I conceived an 
everlasting loathing--and arrogant towards non-geeks who seem also to 
be presumed to be brain-dead.

Whenever I have wanted to reply specifically to the original sender, I 
have done so by clicking on their address, having copied any text ready 
for pasting into the new missive. Only thing is I keep forgetting to 
use the "Paste as quote" key stroke so I have to undo my paste and redo 
it ... four keystrokes, compared with forgetting to make the right 
"Reply to sender" or "Reply to group" and then having to close that and 
do the other ... two keystrokes.

My time is not so desperate that saving two keystrokes is of concern, 
but I will get in touch with the ever responsive Goichi Hirakawa and 
refer him on to this discussion to see what he thinks about adding this 
option to GyazMail, so that his otherwise excellent program cannot be 
labelled "brain-dead"!

Mark