Alan Gauld wrote: > But its obvious there are two views at work here. (The one which sees an apostrophe in "it's" and the one which doesn't? ;)
But, joking aside, I think you've summarised the situation quite well, and I suspect that -- given the what must be thousands of mailing lists and newsgroups out there -- anyones claim that "most x do y" is probably based on anecdotal experience, matter how widespread and long-lived. I would take minor issue -- with you, and with the creators of Thunderbird which is my current mail client of choice. It looks to me as though you're suggesting that the reply-all button is there to reply to a list, whereas it seems to me to be there to reply to all the recipients in the original email, *not* just to reply to a group or other bulk originator. Now that's what Thunderbird does: puts Alan Gauld in the To: field and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in cc: My problem there is that I usually don't want to send the originating individual a private copy of an email he/she is going to receive from the list in any case, so I usually cut-and-paste around so that only the list is in To: AFAIK, TB doesn't offer any configurability here, neither a reply-to-list button, nor any option to treat a list specially on a general reply-to-all. I work with several different lists and simply work around the differences between them so this is hardly problematic for me, but if anyone knows of a TB configuration (or extension) which offers reply-to-group please do let me know! > Vive la difference! Indeed. TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor