Re: What is "system events" ?
Re: What is "system events" ?
- Subject: Re: What is "system events" ?
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:49:51 -0500
On Oct 20, 2017, at 18:43:08, Jean-Christophe Helary
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It's only annoying because you let yourself be annoyed by that.
I get annoyed by systems which cause you to do more work than need be done.
These are computers - they should do things the right way. Why do so many hate
the way Apple's mailing lists work? Because A) it means you have to take extra
steps to reply to the list instead of the user, B) forgetting to do so means
your message goes somewhere you didn't intend, and might never realize it, and
C) Apple is one of the very few lists who do it this way. Real mailing lists
will *always* give you a reply-to back to the list, where replies *should* go
automatically. People have complained about this for decades. Like the new
groups.io lists that have been set up - they do it the right way and none of
this is an issue. But luckily (and sadly), Apple's lists are being killed off.
> Also, ASUL's reply *feature* is that you *have* to edit the To and Cc fields
> to get a reply to the list and not also to the sender. So if you get an error
> message it is because you did not send the message to the right addresses,
> not because I sent it to 2 different places.
Most people replying to Apple mailing lists simply hit Reply All. If one of
those addresses was NOT a mailing list that you're a member of (like the
original message in this thread), then you will get an error because,
obviously, you can't send to that mailing list.
> Applescript is here to help. When I want to "Reply to Sender", which does not
> exist anymore in Mail, I use a script for that. You could write yourself a
> "Reply to List" to avoid error messages.
I used to have such a script, then Apple did something that broke it and I
never bothered to fix it. Also, a script sure doesn't help when you're not
using Mail, like using icloud.com in Safari, or on your phone of iPad, etc.
--
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
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