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[linux-dvb] Re: OT: List behaviour



On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21:02, you wrote:
> I think that's mostly nonsense blabla. It's nearly arrogant.
>
> If I REALLY want to reply only to the author, I still can look up his
> adress in the "FROM:" header.
>
> In most cases I do want to reply to the list.
> But I do very often click accidently on "Reply" instead of "reply to all"
> (and other do so, too), I'm sure I am not the only one. And if one clicks
> on "Reply to all" he has to (or at least should) remove the senders adress.
> It all causes only confusion and this is the first mailing list I
> subscribed that shows this behaviour.
>
> My point of view is:
>
> 1.) In absolutely the most cases you want to reply to the list
>
> 2.) If one wants to reply private, he can still do. Just copy the Adress
> from the FROM: header
>
> 3.) The current handling does nothing than cause confusion by many
> accidently "mislead" mails, I see NO advantage
>
> 4.) The IMHO VERY rare "Can't Find My Way Back Home"-cases (see below) ->
> bad luck

Yes 100% ACK. 

If someone have another meaning, then maybe he can tell me how I enable the 
list reply in Kmail. Kmail doesn't even recognize the list as such (the other 
ML I get it recognizes). I haven't seen on the Website any real argument why 
it should be harmful to change the current behavior. 

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