On 5/23/19 3:33 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
On 5/23/19 6:21 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com):
Hi all,
All: OH HAI!
There's been some discussion about whom to reply to. I guess it's a
personal preference, and my personal preference is described in the
remainder of this email...
If you want to reply to me, on-list, please reply to the list only.
You can ask, but it's mostly futile because most people's software
doesn't handle mailing lists intelligently. Exceptions include mutt
(which I use) and emacs GNUS. Both of those have a (configurable)
ability to do list-mode replying, in which the MUA trims out
non-mailing-list addresses, whenever the user does a group reply that
includes a mailing list address. (I'm being a bit inexact. The details
are IMO not worth detail-freaking to death.)
Shockingly enough Thunderbird isn't half bad.
There are a lot of bad mail clients out there, though.
I started with Pegasus on Novell, much as that bugged me. I refused to pay for
Eudora.
When Thunderbird came along, I never looked back and I have archives going back
to 2001.
When I JUST hit reply, just now, it wanted to send to Daniel.
But I looked before I leapt, saw it was about to do exactly the opposite of
what I wanted, so I fixed it.
And that my friends is the real solution... Not so much smarter tools, but just
being a wee touch smarter our own selfs.
To paraphrase that ancient saying... To err is human. To really screw up,
delegate it to a computer. And then holler at people.
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