From: "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> Munging good. 99.99999% of the time when I reply to a message list
post, I
> wish to reply to the list. Thats what reply does with munging. Make
the
> common case easy, while not making the uncommon cases impossible.
*VERY* common misconception. Most of the time, munging is a no-op, but
let;'s look at the failure cases:
You reply to a person on a list. Reply-To: shunts that over to the list,
but you intended the person as the recipient. By not paying attention,
and using muscle memory to hit -r- to Reply, you end up going to the
list.
Not a misconception. I want to send an off list reply maybe once a month.
Maybe. I want to send an on list reply several times a day. I want that to
be easy. A few people have headers that screw hotmail up and cause it to
reply directly to them, those mails never make it to the list. Its frigging
annoying. If a mail comes from a list, I want reply to make it go to the
list. I don't want to have to remember to use a special key to do so. If I
want to send a reply offlist, I can easily hit reply all and then delete the
list address. Thats far easier than having to remember to type in a new
email address every post.
On a non-munged list, you hit -r- to Reply to the list, but you fail to
pay attention, and it goes to the individual.
Failure mode for non-munged lists: public information is kept private.
Failure mode for a munged list: private information is made public.
Failure mode for non-munged list: mail never makes it tot he list, because
you forgot to make/deleted your copy. This tends to be the usual case.
To counter that Reply-To makes common things easy, a good MUA (mutt!)
will differentiate between a group reply, an individual reply, and a
list reply. Some may argue that an aggregate is the same as a unit, but
I contend that those cannot tell the difference between an apple and a
crate that has apples in it.
Once you have trained your muscles to use L for lists, you rarely make a
mistake between replying to a person, or to a list. Private things are
private, public things are public. This is a good thing.
I don't use mutt. I don't want to use mutt. I couldn't care less what
features mutt has. My mail reader displays html, does that make it
acceptable for me to start sending html mail to the list? Why not, a good
MUA will display it?
Gabe
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