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ulrich steffens wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2005, 07:07 -0800 schrieb Ed Fletcher:
> 
> 
>>That's funny.  I'd been thinking that Ubuntu was a community.  Not a 
>>place where decisions are made by somebody else and we all just have to 
>>accept it.  The majority of posters want to see the list behavior 
>>change.  The majority should rule in a democracy.

Do you really know that the majority want this changed?  The fact that 
some people have talked about this to the list, rendering the topic 
highly visible, doesn't mean that their views reflect that of an 
absolute majority of list members.

>>
> 
> thats funny, because me too wants this thread to stop.
> but if you as the majority decide that this thread goes on and that the
> behavior of this list should change, than i have to accept decisions
> made by others. funny, isnt it!?

Yep.

> 
> btw, i answered to this by RIGHT_CLICKING > answer to list.
> 

reply-to-list is a much-needed feature in Thunderbird imho. I think the 
way this list is set up is pretty sane overall even if my favored mail 
client doesn't make it super easy to reply to the list (yet).