On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:08 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 23:56 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:38 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > There should be one.  That is of the form:
> > >   Reply-To: [email protected]
> > > 
> > > Recently (and not for the first time) I hit Reply to a posting rather
> > > than Reply-to-All, and send a message to a poster when I meant to send
> > > it to the list.
> > > 
> > 
> > It's another religious issue - as I see it, the message in your inbox is
> > "From:" a person, so hitting reply should make that reply go to that
> > person, not to a few thousand other people as well.  I've seen worse
> > embarrassing miss-posts on mailing lists set with the Reply-To: header
> > of the type you suggest than the mild annoyance that you got when your
> > mail went to an individual rather than the list.
> 
> I see your point and take back my request.
> 
> > If you want the message to go to the mailing list, hit "Reply To
> > List" (Ctrl-L), not "Reply to All", that will make your reply go to the
> > proper place as derived from the mail headers and makes sure the person
> > you are replying to doesn't get two copies.  (Another bit of netiquette
> > that seems to be forgotten about.)
> 
> Thanks for the magic.  I'll use it in the future.  What would be
> *really* nice would be for evolution (this list is about evolution) to
> have a icon for this purpose in the panels at the top of the windows.
> What would be *really* *really* nice would be to allow the user to
> choose which icons appear in these panels.
> 
> jon

+1 for an icon for this purpose. I've never know there was this feature
(hence always using reply-to-all instead). Of course, now that its been
mentioned I kick myself for not reading the 'Messages' tab properly...

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