[OS X TeX] Lobbying for Reply-To as it used to be
Ross Moore
ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Tue Mar 23 07:11:41 EST 2004
Hello Will, (and everyone else)
On 23/03/2004, at 10:08 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
>
> I just noticed that the last two emails I sent in reply to list posts
> I forgot to cc them to the list. This is why I think it should go back
> to the old way. Good behaviour (according to the Apple HIG if I recall
> correctly) is that default options are non-destructive. They may be
> more inconvenient, but at least people aren't losing hair by doing as
> they thought was right.
Aren't you now arguing against yourself ?
I thought that the *old way* only made it easy to reply to the list
--- to reply to the OP requires searching through the email (headers?)
to locate the address for a personal reply. Hence this one
is the "destructive" way which should be avoided.
The *newer way* is the one that allows your email software to provide
both options, each at the click of a button, or with a modifier-key.
That is certainly the way it works for me, using Apple's Mail.app.
I've stopped using the elm and pine dinosaurs, now that VPN and/or
SSH tunnelling (or port-forwarding) allow the same Unix mail-server
to be used from anywhere in the world, despite being behind a
fire-wall.)
So, unless I'm mistaken (quite possibly!), then the current config
of this mailing-list is far preferable to the old way.
Nevertheless, others feel differently, for reasons which I suspect
are related to software *usage* rather than *capability*.
If the consensus is to return to the old way, then I'll be one of those
that have to work a little bit harder whenever I feel that a personal
reply seems more appropriate --- presumably so also for most other
people.
(The argument about the original poster perhaps receiving
a duplicate copy of the email is quite immaterial --- especially
given the high level of spamming and other spurious postings
that arrive every day.)
Other issues:
* a reply intended as personal, but sent to the whole list,
can be embarrassing and perhaps damaging
--- though hopefully any personal message that might risk
such mis-direction will be civil, if not just esoterically
technical;
* a reply intended for the whole list, but sent to one person
only, can be recovered from the "Sent Mail" and redirected
to the list at a later time when the mistake is discovered.
This seems like a valid reason to retain the current settings.
Hope this helps,
Ross
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