Re: [Evolution] Reply-To: field on the evolution list

[Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh pacbell net>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 23:56 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 15:38 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > There should be one.  That is of the form:
> >     Reply-To: evolution-list gnome org
> >
> > Recently (and not for the first time) I hit Reply to a posting rather
> > than Reply-to-All, and send a message to a poster when I meant to send
> > it to the list.
>
> It's another religious issue - as I see it, the message in your inbox is
> "From:" a person, so hitting reply should make that reply go to that
> person, not to a few thousand other people as well.  I've seen worse
> embarrassing miss-posts on mailing lists set with the Reply-To: header
> of the type you suggest than the mild annoyance that you got when your
> mail went to an individual rather than the list.

I see your point and take back my request.

> If you want the message to go to the mailing list, hit "Reply To
> List" (Ctrl-L), not "Reply to All", that will make your reply go to the
> proper place as derived from the mail headers and makes sure the person
> you are replying to doesn't get two copies.  (Another bit of netiquette
> that seems to be forgotten about.)

Thanks for the magic.  I'll use it in the future.  What would be
*really* nice would be for evolution (this list is about evolution) to
have a icon for this purpose in the panels at the top of the windows.
What would be *really* *really* nice would be to allow the user to
choose which icons appear in these panels.

jon