On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 06:00:40PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
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>
> >
> >Well, Thunderbird only supports "Reply" and "Reply All". If I do "Reply
> >All" I have to manually intervene and remove the sender's mail-address.
>
> Don't forget also changing CC: for the list to To: and the fact that
> anyone who doesn't feel like removing those additional entries will
> double my incoming mail for any thread I have responded to (because I'm
> in the CC so I get it personally, and I get it from the list).
>
> >But I guess that's not a reasonable mailer....
>
> And I guess it doesn't matter that I now have to manage duplicated mail
> traffic for no reason or choice of my own. It's getting a bit tedious
> already.
>
> >
> >Or is there a way to configure Thunderbird to do this?
>
> Not that I've noticed, but if you read the link, apparently this is the
> user's own problem to deal with... for some reason the author feels that
> it's perfectly all right to mass-mail the same mail to somebody by using
> Reply-All (i.e., if you're too lazy to edit your headers before sending,
> then that's your problem. Which may be true).
>
>
> >
> >>Take a look at this:
> >>
> >>http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> >In the 34768 messages I have read on this list, I have not once read an
> >embarrassing message about anybody's sex-life or boss :(
>
> I get it that munging is bad, but the alternative is not all that much
> better... if it's going to be a big PITA to post to this list, I'm not
> going to do it so much (please hold your cheers of celebration to the
> end, thank you). Naturally, it's not about "me" per se, but I'm sure I'm
> not the only one who might not shoot off a quick solution to a posted
> problem, simply because all this editing and management I must do makes
> it much more difficult to shoot off a quick anything.
I'm sick and tired of witnessing how difficult it is to reasonably change a
few headers in this mailing lists. While I acknolewdge the fact that it's
best to warn users before doing something like this I also find unmanageable
and useless any form of 'voting' for this kind of issues. Stripping the
Reply-To looked and still looks like a "sensible" choice and easily
manageable with a decent MUA and some basic configrations skills. But
apparently my presumptions of considering this an "easy" change was mistaken
and probably leaving the old setup is the best choice since I have no time to
discuss this and tell people how to configure their MUA.
Reply-To has just been restored.
Cheers
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