JC Dill wrote,
| Not on my client it doesn't. It gives me two options, reply to the author
| alone, or reply to BOTH the author and the list ... (which I consider to be
| rude most of the time).
Same here.
My usual way of dealing with it is to delete the previous author's address
from To: and send only Cc: when a direct copy is unwarranted. (It's still
much easier than sending a private reply on an RTL list.)
There are people don't do that and let the direct copy go out all the time.
Some of the time the direct copy is good, some of the time it's unnecessary
but harmless, some of the time it's rude. I wouldn't give any of the three
a "most."
| I want an easy option for any given list subscriber to elect to reply to
| the list ALONE, or reply to the author ALONE, no matter how the list itself
| is configured.
That would be nice, but so far any MUA has to rely on the article's headers
to do that, so "no matter how the list itself is configured" is unachievable.
(Mutt gives it a good try, as I understand.) The list has to be configured
in a way that gives the MUA a fighting chance.
