On Wednesday 18 June 2003 09:08 pm, Doc Shipley wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 00:54, Jason H. Smith wrote: > > Anyway, everybody's mailer has two reply buttons: reply to sender, > > and reply to list. (Actualy reply to sender is actually reply to > > whoever-is-in-the-Reply-To:-header.) Why cause the pain and > > suffering? > > Because making assumptions like that is completely invalid? > > I'd seriously like to know how you arrived at the conclusion that > "everyone's mailer" has those features. What was your sample set?
Hi, Doc. Well, you sort of caught me. But I still think I have a point. First, my sample set was open-source email clients that run on Linux. Given the mailing list, I think that's pretty fair. I know for a fact that Mutt and KMail work this way. And I would wager that Evolution and probably Sylpheed do as well. I'm thinking even money for Pine. I think that should cover a good portion of the list participants. Okay, I just dug through the last 400 messages on the list -- everything my MUA has since I resubscribed (yay maildir!): Mutt: 104 (26%) Unknown: 85 (21.25%) Pine: 78 (19.5%) Kmail: 60 (15%) Outlook: 37 (9.25%) Evolution: 34 (8.5%) Sylpheed: 2 (0.5%) (For most programs, I grepped for User-Agent or X-Mailer. For Pine, I grepped for 'Message-ID: <Pine') We're not talking international cross-platform compatibility here. We're talking about a University Linux user's list and one hell of an annoying feature. -- GPG: 03EE 9EB8 E500 874A F509 7B95 9B9A 84A1 26E9 4F79 http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jhs/public_key.gpg
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