Re: Cursor

Subject: Re: Cursor
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 12:14:48 CDT

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On Fri, 19 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:

> sam th wrote:
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> > On Fri, 19 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
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> > > > /Mike - please reply to AbiWord-dev only
> > >
> > > Please, could anybody sets the reply-to of this list to the list itself?
> >
> > Please, read this before doing that.
> >
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> That page sucks.
>
> I've been in this list for almost 9 months, and I never (*NEVER*) sended
> an email with a reply to only the author of the original message.
> Instead, many times I've lost several messages when I wanted to reply to
> the list and accidentaly reply to the author (yeah, I have a Sent mail
> box, but it tooks too much work forwarding the message to the list, and
> yeah, I'm lazy). I'm tired of getting two times the same e-mail, and
> I'm tired of "reply-all", click in the to field, erase the original
> author from this field, change the Cc: field to a To: one, and send the
> mail (and that's when I remember to hit "reply-all" instead of "reply").
>
> I don't need any fundamental principe (like the author of that page
> suggest) for convince me that this method is what I need.
>
> For me, the actual state of the Reply-to just sucks.

Well, I see you feel strongly about this.

I have sent numerous messages to just the author. I am on a number of
lists where the reply-to header is set, and I find it inconvenient. But I
sincerely hope we can avoid a flame war about this.
           
                                     sam th
                                     sam@uchicago.edu
                                http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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