On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:09:22 Lee Winter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:21:40AM EDT, Terence wrote: > >> 2009/10/13 Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>: > >> > The position I was trying to explain in my earlier message was that, > >> > even though 99% of replies to mailing list messages are intended to > >> > go to the list, directing an intended-private message to the list > >> > causes over 100 times more harm than a message intended for the list > >> > being inadvertently made private. The Debian list policy is, > >> > therefore, reasonable, because it minimizes the overall total harm > >> > caused by misdirected messages. > >> > >> Well said. I think that about covers it. > > Not quite. > > > I have personally experienced the embarrassment of such situations on a > > couple of occasions, and counted my blessings that there was nothing > > sensitive in these messages. > > Consider an email UI that offered the following choices: > - reply to sender (only) > - reply to list (only) > - reply to all > This would appear to make it possible for the user to establish a > default preference and selectively override it as necessary. > > If such a UI were commonly available, how would that hurt the > community of mailing list members? KMail has a similar interface, which is enabled by the List-* headers and the lack of a Reply-To header on most list emails. KMail's "Reply to Author" goes to the From address, unless the author has specified a Reply-To address, then it goes there. KMail's "Reply to Mailing-List" goes to the mailing list address, gleaned from the List-* headers. It might be dependent on having used "Folder -> Mailing List Management..." on the current folder though, I'm not sure. KMail's "Reply to All" goes to any address listed in multiple headers. I'm not actually sure what Kmail's plain "Reply" does, although it seems to generally do the right thing for most lists I've been on. If your client of choice does not support the List-* headers, the place to complain is not here. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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