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... _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
