Re: [Evolution] Reply for list messages should go back to the list

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Note: this is a comment on Evo itself, rather than the Evo list.
>
> As someone who posts quite a lot on this list, I'm forever having to
> deal with people replying to my personal address rather than the list
> address. Of course they should be using Reply To List (Ctrl-L) or even
> Reply-To-All (Shift-Ctrl-R) but occasionally they forget and use just
> Reply (Ctrl-R) so one has to remind them. I'm sure other frequent
> contributors find the same thing.
>
> An obvious solution to this is to do what Kmail does. When the message
> being replied to contains a List-Post header, Ctrl-R should do the same
> as Ctrl-L. There should also be a Reply-To-Author command for the rare
> case when the reply should be directed to the message Reply-To field,
> presumably the author's personal address.
>
> This would work on lists, including this one, which follow RFC-2822 and
> don't do "Reply-To munging". For those that do munge the Reply-To field,
> a reply to the author would require some editing, but that's already the
> case with these lists so nothing is lost.

That's just munging in a different place. As it is, I have the *choice*:

 - I can hit Ctrl-R to reply to you alone.
 - I can hit Ctrl-Shift-R to reply to you and the list.
 - I can hit Ctrl-L to reply to the list.

Just like the people who advocate using a Reply-To: header, you're
trying to take away my choices and make one or more of those keystrokes
actually do something _other_ than what I wanted.

> (Those who follow the Fedora Users list will know there's been a long
> thread about munging, which that list does do.)
>
> poc
>
> PS If you reply to this, please make sure it goes to the list unless you
> *really* want to say something to me personally :-)

If you reply to this, please make sure you don't drop me from Cc. I may
only look at the list sporadically (or indeed never; I may not even be
subscribed -- someone may have redirected your mail to me because they
knew I'd be interested). It'd be very rude not to Cc me in your reply.

That's why I almost never use the Ctrl-L option on mailing lists, unless
I notice that someone asked for it. In the general case, it's much
easier for someone to deal with having two copies, than it is for them
to deal with having *none*.

-- 
dwmw2