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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:18 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 10:49 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 15:50 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 10:12 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > No no no. Reply To Author is a reply to the author (sender) of the
> > > > message, i.e. what you get currently with Ctrl-R, and what you'll still
> > > > get with Ctrl-R when it's not a list message. This is very explicit in
> > > > the original proposal. Sorry if it isn't clear. 
> > >
> > > So how would you get Reply to Author if it _is_ a list message?
> >
> > Message->Reply To Author
>
> That's a *really* bad idea. The standard reply button and Ctrl-R should
> give a *private* reply. Changing that to suddenly send *public* replies
> is asking for trouble.

That's the whole essence of the original proposal. Your comments on the
BZ page lead me to think that you had understood this since you made a
counterproposal, to wit:

> Currently, the 'reply to list' function does nothing if the list
> headers aren't detected.
>
> Perhaps we could make it do the same as 'reply to all' in that case,
> and then the people who want this feature could just bind the 'reply
> to list' function to the Ctrl-Shift-R keystroke?

To which I replied:

> Making Reply To List turn into Reply To All when no list headers are present is
> not a bad alternative. I don't see the need for changing the keystroke binding
> since Ctrl-L would Just Work.

poc