Doug Brewer observed:
> well, since most replies go to the list, it's better to have the reply-to
> address the list rather than require everyone to hand type the list address
> every time.
I'm not complaining about the fact that the mailing list _sets_
"Reply-To:". The merits of that are debatable -- on the one hand
you've got error A being more common, on the other hand you've
got error B having a greater potential for embarassment -- and I
can see both sides on that isue. (Note that the alternative should
not require hand-typing the list address, though it does require
manually deleting the sender on a reply if you don't want to send
them two copies: that's what reply-all is for. But on another
mailing list I get, folks sometimes gripe about getting double
copies of followups.) Anyhow, I don't intend to re-open that
as a PDML-configuration issue: it's been decided.
My complaint is elsewhere:
I'm complaining about the particular MUA I've been using for the
past couple weeks (as opposed to my usual one that I hope to be
back to soon) not providing any way to say, "No, really, I meant
reply-to-sender this time!" if "Reply-To:" has been set.
This mailer has "normal reply (to sender)" and "reply-all". If
there's a "Reply-To" header, *both* of those commands reply to
that address.
My usual mailer has "normal reply (to all)" and "reply to sender".
If "Reply-To:" exists, normal reply sends to the Reply-To address
and reply-to-sender replies to the sender. *That* makes _sense_
to me (even if having "reply-all as the default feels backwards).
What I really want (in my dreamworld) is a mailer that looks
and feels like /usr/bin/mailx and /bin/mail, understands PGP/GPG
and MIME, lets me see and edit headers when I edit the message
(like SunOS mailx and unlike Linux /bin/mail), and has four reply
commands: reply to sender, reply to all, reply to whatever's
in the reply-to header (default to sender), and reply to mailing
list (default to reply-to if present and reply-all otherwise, if
there's no way to tell what "to mailing list" means for a particular
message).
I want tools that do what I tell them instead of trying to
figure out what they think I should have wanted. (Okay, they
can try to guess as long as they provide some way for me to
say "I'm explicitly telling you to do exactly _this_" as an
override.) This applies to mailers, newsreaders, web browsers,
word processors, cars, cameras, and pretty much everything else.
*That's* what I'm complaining about.
-- Glenn
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