Subject: Re: Cursor
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 12:47:43 CDT
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On Fri, 19 May 2000, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >The final decission correspond to the sourcegear guys, but it would be
> >cool if everybody says what are his/her preference here.
>
> My preference is:
> If I get mail that is addressed to me, the reply button should reply to only
> the sender. The reply to all button should reply to the sender and the other
> recipients, but not to me.
> If I get mail that is not addressed to me, but is sent to a mailing list that I
"Ay, there's the rub." -Hamlet
It would sure be nice if mail programs could tell if something was from a
mailing list. But I'm pretty sure that that tech is a ways in the future.
> am on, the reply button should reply to only the sender. The reply to all
> button should reply to all recipients but not the sender, who is presumably on
> the list.
> I do sometimes need to reply to the sender and not the list, as when Chris,
> Ash, and I were discussing the translation.
> The list is set up correctly. The bug is in Kmail.
I agree, except that I'm not sure that this is a bug. I think that what
we want our mail program to do requires understanding things about the
recipients of our mail that only we know.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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