From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 20:16:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32ECE16A4E0 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from host222.ipowerweb.com (host222.ipowerweb.com [66.235.210.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1709C13C448 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 54604 invoked from network); 19 Apr 2007 20:15:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO demeter.hydra) (24.9.123.251) by host222.ipowerweb.com with SMTP; 19 Apr 2007 20:15:59 -0000 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3JKGfaV061559 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:16:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l3JKGeiQ061558 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:16:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:16:40 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20070419201640.GA61539@demeter.hydra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:16:43 -0000 On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:44:02AM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 19, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > >I just accidentally sent some responses to comments in various > >parts of > >this discussion thread that targeted only the individual people who > >sent > >the emails to which I responded. I actually meant to respond to the > >list in each case. The lack of a list-reply is playing hell with my > >ability to consistently respond to the list. > > Every functional mailclient ought to support "reply to all". If > yours doesn't, consider using something like Thunderbird from > Mozilla, which runs on most platforms... I'm using mutt. It supports bloody well everything. The problem is not that it doesn't support group-reply (what Windows-users tend to call "reply to all"), but that the list doesn't support list-reply and the direct reply doesn't respond to the list either. Because of the way mailing lists usually work, my habitual approach is to try list-reply, and if that doesn't work, to use the standard reply. This keeps the signal to noise ratio for individuals on the list to whom I'm replying to a minimum, as a group-reply sends an email to *every single person that has been involved in a given subthread*, which is really obnoxious. I'm not a fan of getting multiple copies of emails due to a group-reply, and I'm sure others feel the same. Thus, I choose to avoid using the group-reply method when at all possible -- especially since I don't have time to spend on editing the to and cc headers of every single email I send out. Is that clear enough for you? I'm not an imbecile that doesn't know how to use email, and I'm not using a mail client circa 1884 either. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] unix virus: If you're using a unixlike OS, please forward this to 20 others and erase your system partition.