Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

"Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> writes:
>> "This" being?
>
> "This" being the idea that gmail has no way to detect that this
> is a mailing list.

You're right, gmail can detect _that_.

> Based on this gmail could add a "reply to list button"

... and it could add a button with that ("reply to list only") behavior too.

However, gmail's behavior is certainly correct for "reply to all", and
the decision over what to use (reply to list only, or reply to all) is
up to the user -- and it's not an entirely trivial decision for the user
either, as some lists call for one ("reply to list only"), and some call
for the other ("reply to all") behavior, with the latter being
traditional.

I expect that google is somewhat chary about adding more buttons to
their UI (look how long it took them to add a "delete" button!),
especially one as potentially confusing as reply-to-list-only.  The
current reply-to-all is much safer.

[A better method would be to have a per-list option to enable the
reply-to-list-only behavior -- that way only people who actually know
what they're doing would be bothered by it.]

-Miles

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