Paul, One problem is that not all mail clients explicitly support your option d (Reply to mailing list). Option c (Reply to sender) is not even explicitly supported by some mail clients. Pegasus Mail (which I am using for this response) has only a single Reply button but using it opens a Reply Options menu from which one can select any of about six different header categories from which the addressee can be selected. Of course the To: field can be manually edited later as well. Mulberry Mail, which I use sometimes on both Linux and Windows, has a similar technique for selecting the addressee(s) for replies (and only a single button). DroidMail on my Android phone has two "buttons" -- Reply and Reply All.
This topic has become the basis for flame wars on this list so I generally try to avoid the subject here. However, I will once again explain my own way of thinking about the subject. Mailing lists are a way to share comments with a group of people who share an interest in a particular topic. As such private replies _should_ be the exception rather than the rule. As a result, IMO Reply should route the message to the mailing list by default. Starting with this post, any message that I send to this mailing list via any of the three mail clients that I use will carry this header: Reply-To: "LibreOffice Users List" <users@global.libreoffice.org This will tell the mail clients from which replies are sent that this is the preferred address to which a reply should be sent. This is my way of getting around what I consider to be a wrong headed configuration of this mailing list. I am willing to respond to serious questions about my policy and way of thinking but will NOT participate in a flame war.. -- Jim On 27 Apr 2014 at 18:09, Paul wrote: > I know this list reply issue has cropped up several times now, but just > to add something I haven't seen mentioned: > > I'm using Claws Mail 3.7.6 on Windows 7 64bit. When replying to > messages from this list, there are normally four options: > > a) Reply > b) Reply to all > c) Reply to sender > d) Reply to mailing list > > I normally use the default reply (option a), and like with this > message, it normally goes to the list. > > But a while back I noticed that for someone I was replying to, the > reply button addressed the reply to the person, and not the list. I > can't remember who (or even when exactly) this was, but it was not the > normal behavior. In that case I picked it up before sending the > message, and just manually corrected the issue, I think. I'm can't > remember if I tried the "Reply to mailing list" option, or what it did > if I did. > > So it seems that sometimes things work one way and sometimes the > other... > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:03:28 -0400 > Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > > > This is a PEBKAC problem, nothing more... > > > > I'm not so sure it always is... > > Paul > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
