On 28 Apr 03:58, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > Ben Finney a écrit : > > Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> writes: > > > >> Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument > >> is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian > >> lists, which as you can see, doesn't happen very often. > > > > No, the point of a ‘reply to list’ command is you *don't* have to > > remember when to use it. Just use it every time you reply to any list, > > and it will DTRT because it uses the standard fields which are in just > > about every mailing list anywhere. The times when it doesn't will be the > > rare ones. > > Why do these functions not do a normal "Reply" when not applied to a > mail contained within a list? What do they do then? If they also do the > right thing for a non-list mail, why are not they bound by default to > be the main "Reply" button? That is a real question, btw, no irony implied.
Because you don't always want to reply to the list. I rather like that Reply means "reply to the person that wrote the e-mail" rather than "reply to the list, the list wants to know, really". -- Brett Parker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
