> iirc, the problem was caused by non-standard (but 'simpler') > behaviour of e-mail clients/mailing lists, and people > becoming accustomed to that behaviour rather than the > standard way of doing things. i imagine microsoft were > involved somewhere, but others are probably as bad. > > now some mailing lists are set up to do things the 'standard' > way, and some to do things the 'expected' way, so there is a > perception that some are doing something stupid > > there are many things wrong with the world
... But some we can fix, some we cannot. :) Outlook 2003 behaves by putting in sender's email address when you hit Reply, and putting both in when you hit reply-all. This is, for me, expected behaviour, insofar as the client is following instructions as the mailing list presents a message being sent by (in your case) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of robin paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just about all other mailing lists I'm on behave by putting in the main submission address into the To box when I hit reply. I'm on other Mailman lists where they behave perfectly as you'd expect. This mailing list, be it 'correct' in its configuration or not, still doesn't behave /logically/ - and that to me is a usability problem which could (I guess) be comparatively easily solved. (I have little experience of other mail clients, particularly outside of the win32 sphere - do other mail clients behave differently (and 'correctly' as I would describe it, when you hit reply on this list?) Christopher _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
