Akkana wrote:
> Mozilla does it, too: if I hover over "Reply", the tooltip is "Reply
> to Sender Only", but if I click it, I get a window that's replying
> to the newsgroup. Replyall does the obvious thing (replies to the
> newsgroup and the sender, usually not very useful
Not only usually - it is against the nettiquette and GNKSA, and we
should fix it. (In that way, it is even worse than 4.x Unix.)
<quote src="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/gnksa.txt">
2) Provide clear, separate commands for new posting, followup, and
e-mail reply
The software MUST provide separate, clearly distinguished commands to do
each of the following:
a) Post a new article, unrelated to any existing one, whose Subject
is to be supplied by the user, and which has an empty or missing
References: header line.
b) Post a followup article, with Subject, Newsgroups, and References
header lines derived appropriately from the original article.
(see #5, #6, and #7 below)
c) Reply by e-mail, with "Subject: " and "To: " headers derived
appropriately from the original article. (see #5 and #8 below)
Software that uses the English language is strongly encouraged to
include the phrases "Post to newsgroup", "Followup to newsgroup", and
"Reply by e-mail" (or "Reply to sender" or "Reply to author") -- in
menus, on-line help, and written documentation. It SHOULD avoid using
other verbs such as "Send" or "Respond" whose meaning is not evident to
the user. An ordinary, untrained user SHOULD be able to easily pick the
correct command.
Rationale: Users who post followups when they should send e-mail
replies, or vice versa, seem to be an endemic problem. They are almost
always using software that doesn't make the difference clear, or doesn't
even provide both commands.
</quote>
> but at least it's
> consistent with what it does in mail) but Reply is obviously
> inconsistent with what the tooltip says it will do.
>
> Is there a bug filed yet?
You mean about the tooltip? I don't know of any.
