Hello, Am 31.07.2007 um 18:16 schrieb Hilmar Lapp:
> For those who haven't seen this: > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > There's nothing I can add. It is always a bad thing to be the advocate ones own behalf, but I cant resist to do so in this case. Unhappily, the article presenting the opposite view seems to have vanished from the web. At least I couldnt find it in a quick search. I wont go in every detail, because I could argue against every single sentence in this post. It is extremly biased by an extreme kind of guy who should never be allowed to make any decisions that have to do with usability. Hear him talk, all what he has to tell is "elm can do it". Well, I can do so too. I actually just do. Yes, and every decent MUA has two different commands. The thing is, in 99.999% of all cases you use hit reply and not reply-all, dont you? Do you ever think about when doing? No, you actually wouldnt use such modernistic stuff like email if you were still thinking about every decision you take within a minute. Command-R is stored in your muscular memory. Yes, email is a rather complicated thing one shouldnt tinker with. But the page count of RFCs cant impress me. Yes, I read them regularly too, when I try to solve a problem. At least, I can confirm that the writer of the pamphlet is as knowledgeable to quote the right RFCs. There is only one single technical argument given. Preexisiting reply- to headers might be overriden. Yes. Who uses them? I did a quick search through 2000 messages I archive locally and could not find a single post using it. It might have been a means of organising your accounts when they were expensive. I havent seen such since the times when everybody has half a dozen of them, using syndication services for free or managing all of them centralized with one client. But yes, this might harm in some rare cases. Please speak up if I anybody would be harmed. The argument that it makes things more complicated and breaks elm might be a hint that elm is actually the kind of brain-dead software he is bashing. With *MY* personal favourite email client that every- body in the world could use as well if he/she was such a wizard as I am, it is really easy to reply to the sender, just point on it and choose reply to sender from the contextual menu. Ok, I stop rant-mode. I think it is quite clear what I meant with a biased view in this post (I enjoy such thing, it gives me a chance to counter it). >> Some mailing lists have restricted posting privileges, with a >> parallel >> list devoted to discussions. I made the difference with discussion lists vs. announcement list which is roughly the same. After having said all of the above, I can also tell, that I start integrating the reply-all habit in my muscular memory and that it is not a matter of live and die for me. Bye, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
