Re: Building garnome-2.10.0.1: the short take

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > >Please keep the discussion on the list, rather then replying personally
> > >only, unless you really intend to contact me personally.
> > >
> > >Cc'ing the list, as this seems to an itching issue to a lot of people --
> > >given that my post received 2 responses within a few minutes...
> 
> > Sorry. I meant to reply to the list. But when I hit reply in
> > Thunderbird, I got your email address instead of the lists. Seems the
> > like the list's "reply to" field is not set.

No big deal, Doug.

FWIW, as taking private discussion to the public is impolite, I just
explain and justify why I do so -- and only do it when appropriate.


> That is normal and it isn't something I would expect a developer list like
> this to ever want to change.  Google for "Reply to considered harmful"

Thanks Alan. :)  Yes, setting the Reply-To header is pretty nasty IMHO.


> Better to accidentally send a mail to one person than to spam a list of
> hundreds.  Mutt and many other mail clients support Reply-to-List, lazy
> people like me use Reply-All (although I usually get in the habit of
> delete the extra CC if people mention it bothers them).
> 
> This seems to be the relevant request to add support for this standard to
> Thunderbird  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233417

I personally consider not supporting Replying to the List a bug.

Here goes the Evolution "cheat codes": ;-)

 Actions / Reply to Sender    Ctrl-R
 Actions / Reply to List      Ctrl-L
 Actions / Reply to All       Shift-Ctrl-R

...guenther


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