Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:52:49PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> On February 06, 2004 21:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:43:10PM -0500, David P James wrote:
> > > Really? Pressing the Reply button sends it to the sender and not
> > > the newsgroup?
> >
> > That's normal for NUAs. If you want to reply to the newsgroup, you
> > use followup, not reply.
>
> I think you missed the earlier parts of this particular thread; TB does
> not do what I suggested above; rather that was an incredulous question
> that I was posing. TB does not have a Follow-up button but rather
> employs/misuses the reply button for that purpose.
So if TB is supposedly better than Lookout, how does it differ? So
far, TB sounds identical to Outlook.
> And if TB had a reply-list button for mailing lists it would probably
> also get a proper follow-up button for newsgroups, since it would
> employ the same one. But it just doesn't seem to be a priority for
> either Mozilla or TB, since the relevant bugs (for Mozilla) are
> relatively old, which is unfortunate since the presence of proper
> reply-list/follow-up functions in Mozilla could be used as a bit of a
> bludgeon against the oft-repeated argument that there are no mail
> clients for Windows with such functionality.
It's because Windows and almost all software on that platform is still
more or less stuck in the early 1980s when it comes to functionality.
It's just prettier now.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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