Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Fri Nov 29 20:11:01 PST 2002

Mark A Mandel <mam at theworld.com> writes on 29 November 2002 at 21:04:20 -0500
 > On 29 Nov 2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
 > 
 > #It's been suggested that mail clients implement "reply to sender" as
 > #yet another workaround.  However, the easiest solution is simply to
 > #implement the RFC defining message headers giving posting, subscribe,
 > #and unsubscribe addresses.  I know Pegasus mail imlements that one,
 > #for example.  Then you can click on a button to do the precise thing
 > #you want.
 > 
 > You have buttons?

Check my headers; I use gnus, via an ssh connection to my server box.
While I have Pegasus installed on my windows box, I use it only for
sending and receiving attachments that I need to deal with on my
windows box (manuscripts, photos). 

 > I have a slow dialup connection, so I do my email and newsgroups through
 > a tty-emulation text-only connection, using pine and tin. In order to
 > send this reply to the list I had to answer affirmatively to pine's
 > question "reply to all?", which I have set to default to "no", which is
 > appropriate for most non-list mail. If I had forgotten to do that when
 > starting the reply, my only clue that I was replying off-list would be
 > negative: the absence of
 > 	Cc      : dragaera at dragaera.info

I think Mutt is better in general, but I don't remember if it handles
groups better.  Gnus definitely does (what I use, as I said), though
not automatically.
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