Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?
On February 06, 2004 21:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> > Still, TB and Moz's main weakness is lack of mailing list support.
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> Alas, this is a failing of many otherwise capable MUAs. It's 2004:
> At this point, I'm willing to consider the lack of reply-to-list to
> be an Important bug.
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.
As an aside, are there any mailers for Windows that have a reply-list
button/function? Eudora? Pegasus? The Bat? I've not used them so I
really don't know but to my knowledge none of them do.
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David P James
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