FW: OT: mail and homepage.mac.com
FW: OT: mail and homepage.mac.com
- Subject: FW: OT: mail and homepage.mac.com
- From: "Bill Lowrey" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 12:02:54 -0500
- Organization: istation.com
@#%&$%^*!@#$()*!#@$!!!
Ooooops!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lowrey [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 12:02 PM
To: 'Zach Wily'
Subject: RE: OT: mail and homepage.mac.com
Without trying to flame, I have to disagree strongly with the author.
While the author makes some interesting points, he does ignore the fact that
every other mail list I've ever seen behaves in this manner. It is *not* an
isolated behavior of a few lazy list admins. This is the only list I'm on
that behaves that way, and it's annoying. The author can make holy-war
announcements by referencing RFCs, but the rest of the universe has moved
forward a little bit.
Interesting that he uses ELM! I haven't used ELM for any extended period of
time since '95! Advice from a guy like this has little relevence to those
who have advanced to using GUIs, and who try to make things easy enough for
their spouse, parents and grandparents. Even my father is able to understand
how Yahoo! Groups work. He even understands that replies go to the whole
list. Here in the Mac world, a lot of effort is put into developing
consistent, friendly interfaces. I would argue that requiring different
behavior than every other list I've been a part of in the last 14 years is
not consistent. It'd be nice to change.
Regards,
- Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: email@hidden
[mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of Zach Wily
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:25 AM
To: Steve Mills
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: OT: mail and homepage.mac.com
>> also, when i want to reply to a message from this list, the sender's
>> address appears in the to: field, and i have to delete that and put in
>> the list's address. in all other mailing lists that i've subscribed
>> to,
>> mail automatically puts the list address in the to: field...
>
> Some Apple lists do it that way and it's extremely annoying. Other
> Apple lists (and every other non-Apple list I've ever subscribed to)
> do it the RIGHT way. I "work around" it by having a script that will
> reply to the correct address and keep it in a DragThing dock that's
> only visible in Mail.
I don't want to start a big flame war about this, but the "Reply All"
way is arguably more correct. Munging reply-to to point back to the
list actually has several downsides:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Using "Reply All" works with both types of list, so I just use that.
zach
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