On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 08:13:54AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:51:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Miles Bader wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Which is the exact reason why reply-to-list has been an open bug for = > > TB! > > for going on 4-5 years now. They don't want to add another button and ca= > > n't > > agree on what the default behavior should be or if they should have a dro= > > pdown > > menu like 1/2 the other buttons. *sigh* > > I started a small mailing list for some old buddies and I to use as we > plan our camping trip for next year. Its something we do every 4 years > or so and it generates all kinds of mail in the process. I thought a > list would be a great way to manage that stuff. Yep, same for me > So they are all pointy-clicky users who don't know much about > computing and that's fine. The result is they don't have a clue, > despite repeated explanation by me, how to use the list. A major part > of that I put down to the fact that none of the popular mailers in use > by user's of that other OS are equpped to handle mailing lists. And because of that I opted for the "groups" feature of one big free mail provider. It comes will all the "bells and whistles", like subject tagging and reply-to munging. Yuck! > The folks at t-bird and google etc are all worried about how to > present it blah blah blah. THey're afraid of confusing the users, > whatever. Just stick it in there and let them figure it out. Its not > *that* complicated and if the users are presented with it, they'll > make it work. I swear dumbing down interfaces has done more to make > dumb users than anything else. There was a sig here somewhere (on d-d) ... here it is: "Create a system that is usable even by idiots, and only idiots will use it." Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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