Re: [Evolution] Reply to all should include myself

[David Hoover <karma deadmoose com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 16:18, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 15:18, David Hoover wrote:
> > I have to disagree (which I did when I filed a bug about this & it got
> > closed with the same response):
> >
> > If I'm on the recipient list of a message, and hit reply to all, I want
> > my address kept in the cc list.
> >
> > If I'm sending a quick note my girlfriend saying "I'm heading home now",
> > I don't want to cc myself.
> >
> > So it doesn't seem unreasonable to want 'reply to all' to actually reply
> > to everyone who was a recipient of the message.
>
> Sounds to me like you really want a mailing list.  :-)  Then replies to
> the group come back to you, via the mailing list.  This works pretty
> well for the webmaster gnome or group.
Yes, but what if a thread starts up between me, Joe, and Bob. I don't
really want to make a mailing list davidandjoeandbob deadmoose com for
this one conversation, even if it drags on for a few days.

So yes, when a mailing list is appropriate, it makes sense, but they're
not always appropriate for all messages that you might send to a group
of people.