Taking a poll on mail client reply

[rcedelman at comcast.net]

Most modern email clients (K-Mail and Evolution come to mind) also have a "reply to list" function that works fairly well. Not that I'm using a modern email client these days, but I wish I was. Comcast's webmail sucks horribly; note the top post!

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From: Tom Bruno <tom at limesg.com>
> Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
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> > Tom Bruno wrote:
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> > | I'm tired of hitting reply and then realizing my reply went
> > | directly to the person and not the list.
> >
> > This is (holy|flame)-war ground...
> >
> > Check out the first two google hits on: reply-to munging:
> >
> > "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> >
> > MetaSystema.Net: Reply-To Munging Considered Useful
> > http://www.metasystema.net/essays/reply-to.mhtml
> >
> > My main personal experience with nastiness caused by either method is 
> > with
> > our neighborhood e-mail list: When I first brought the list up, some new
> > users were not familiar with the munging feature and send private 
> > replies to
> > the list by mistake (simply by hitting reply). Reply-to munging has been
> > disabled ever since...
> >
> According to other posts, it's immoral to hide your reply's in private 
> messages ;)
> 
> but I do understand the complications, and like i said, I know nothing 
> of why it's setup like this, and have no opinion. I just find it annoying.
> 
> And I did it again when i just replied to you, luckly i hit cancel in time.
> 
> > ...and google ranks the "considered harmful" page above the "useful" 
> > page,
> > so it must be bad. :-)
> >
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> > Charles Steinkuehler
> > charles at steinkuehler.net
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