Now assume you'll want to answer to the author one out of ten times - then its 28 clicks (9*3 + 1) vs. 15 clicks (9*1 + 6).
Harald ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Balazic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ross Levis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MP3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [MP3 ENCODER] The Pause That Documents > Ross Levis wrote: > > > > David Balazic wrote: > > > > >>Why not make the most probable choice the easiest one? > > >> > > > > > >Because it makes replying only to the author a pain-in-the-ass. > > > > > > > It currently makes replying to the list a pain-in-the-ass. > > > > > Very hard to double-click the To: field and hit BACKSPACE ... > > > ( to delete the authors address ) > > > > Just double-click the To: field and hit BACKSPACE ... > > ( to delete the list address ) > > ( I assume you mean this as an example of sending the reply > to the author , in case when Reply-to munging is used ) > > Try that again. You will notice that after you deleted the list address > the message will be sent to /dev/null as there are no recepients > listed any more. You must either : > > - type in the address of the author ( a big PITA ) > - copy the authors address from the original message and paste > it into the reply ( a smaller PITA , but still a lot more than > anything needed in the non-reply-to scenario ) > > > It is "three or one clicks" versus "one or six clicks". > > Explanation : > > - no Reply-To: munging : > - reply to list only : > 1.) click on REPLY > 2.) select the authors address ( either by double-clicking or drag-selecting ) > 3.) hit BACKSPACE > - reply to author only : > 1.) click on REPLY > > - Reply-To: munging : > - reply to list only : > 1.) click on REPLY ( or REPLAY-ALL, behaves the same in Netscape ) > - reply to author only : > 1.) select the authors address in the original mail > 2.) click COPY ( or press ctrl-c ) > 3.) click REPLY > 4.) select the list address > 5.) hit BACKSPACE > 6.) click PASTE ( or press ctrl-v ) > > ( it may be one step less on UNIX where SELECTing and COPYing are one step ) > > -- > David Balazic > -------------- > "Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq., & "Ted" Theodore Logan > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > _______________________________________________ > mp3encoder mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder > _______________________________________________ mp3encoder mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/mp3encoder
