What do you modify to change the default "so-and-so wrote:" to
"something clever caused so-and-so to write:" ?
Christopher Jahn wrote:
> And it came to pass that Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
>> Ben Bucksch wrote:
>>
>>> If I click "Reply All", I usually end up replying to one
>>> person only - the poster.
>>> If I click just "Reply", I reply to the group ("All").
>>> I would expect the exact opposite.
>>
>> Oh, and if I ready the *very same* msg via a mailinglist
>> (like the mozilla.org newsgroup / mailinglist pairs), I have
>> to use the exact opposite button, i.e. the one I would
>> expect: "Reply" to answer poster only,
>> "Reply All" (plus deleting original sender from recipients)
>> to answer to the list/group.
>
>
> Generally, replies to a newsgroup post is posted to the
> newsgroup and not sent to the poster, so "reply" DOES make more
> sense to post to the groups; you are replying to the group.
>
> In 4.75/win9X, "reply all" defaults to groups AND poster, but if
> you click and hold, you are offered a choice between group and
> poster or just the poster.
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