Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Don, 2015-03-19 at 17:45 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: [...] also +1 for the quote only relevant and answer inline directly below it style - an email is written once and read (hopefully;-) more often so it is actually extremely unfriendly (because time killing) to all others to make a mail not as

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread William Bagwell
On Saturday 21 March 2015, Larry Kuenning wrote: Settable by which user?  The sender or the recipient? Recipient of course, sender has no way of knowing what the recipient prefers. And wouldn't a default of removing all but one level of quoted text make nonsense of some posts?  E.g. in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mar 21, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com In many mail user agents, when you press the Reply button the program will analyze the headers, determine that the post being replied to came from a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/20/2015 8:38 PM, Richard Damon rich...@damon-family.org wrote: Thunderbird isn't quite like that, but when I reply to a message from the list I am given 3 options: Reply Reply All Reply to List Do you mean that you see a single button with a drop-down that provides these three

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/20/2015 2:48 PM, Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com wrote: On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 14:37 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: No, the point is you apparently can't simply acknowledge that you mis-spoke/made a mistake. Tanstaafl, it it will make you happy, I _officially_ acknowledge that I made a

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/21/2015 12:55 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: If I were writing an MUA, I'd make each addressee a button which replies to them only.[1] For the explicit reply button, I'd automatically put the list-post and author in To:, provide an obvious delete button on each (as

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 11:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/20/2015 8:38 PM, Richard Damon rich...@damon-family.org wrote: Thunderbird isn't quite like that, but when I reply to a message from the list I am given 3 options: Reply Reply All Reply to List Do you mean that you see a

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 11:52 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 3/20/2015 2:48 PM, Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com wrote: On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 14:37 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: No, the point is you apparently can't simply acknowledge that you mis-spoke/made a mistake. Tanstaafl, it it will make you