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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> >  * Those who want Evolution to try to be intelligent about where to
> > reply to, by somehow magically detecting the "appropriate" way to
> > reply
>
> I think it's best for Evolution always to do what you ask it.
>
> But there are a lot of stupid people out there who ask it to do the
> wrong thing, so I think the best option is to prompt them -- hence my
> patch to say "are you sure you want to reply privately?" when replying
> to a mailing list.

The prompt is a possible win, but calling people stupid isn't going to
sell the idea. The fact is I wanted to improve the list handling because
people make mistakes, not because they don't understand what they're
doing. 

> And this one to say "are you sure you want to reply to all?" when you
> reply to a message with lots of recipients. Unless it's a mailing list
> message.

Definitely against this. There's no such thing as a "right number" of
recipients to trigger the query.

poc