Sounder List Functionality

[Tristan Wibberley]

Randy Gloden wrote:
> I read the opinion from the link you quoted and I see where he he coming 
> from.  Although the "Principle of Least" supprise he mentions does not 
> work the way I (and evidently other on the list) think.
> 
> I happen to like Thunderbird, and indeed in this program a Reply-All 
> does reply back to the list.  I guess in the end, what is important is 
> that the list functions in a manner that works best for the specific 
> people that use it.  About 1/5 of those that have responded to me thus 
> far have been via a direct reply.

If you press the button on your email program that requests to reply 
directly to the sender, then your email program *should* reply like 
that. What if it is confidential information that is requested and the 
list sends falsified information to cause the reply to go to the public 
mailing list? That is not correct. Just press the correct button on your 
email program to request a followup to the list.

If I want to followup to the list I will ask my mail user agent to 
followup only to the list, if I want to reply to the sender, I will ask 
my mail user agent to reply only to the sender and I expect it to go 
only to the sender. If that doesn't happen I'd be quite annoyed, and 
possibly sued (depending on the contents of the email). It's like web 
sites that only work properly with Internet Explorer - or worse, seem to 
work with Firefox but do something differently.

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Tristan Wibberley