Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

From: David P James (dpjames_at_rogers.com)
Date: 02/07/04

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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 23:52:49 -0500

    On February 06, 2004 21:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
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    > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:43:10PM -0500, David P James wrote:
    > > Really? Pressing the Reply button sends it to the sender and not
    > > the newsgroup?
    >
    > That's normal for NUAs. If you want to reply to the newsgroup, you
    > use followup, not reply.

    I think you missed the earlier parts of this particular thread; TB does
    not do what I suggested above; rather that was an incredulous question
    that I was posing. TB does not have a Follow-up button but rather
    employs/misuses the reply button for that purpose.

    >
    > > Still, TB and Moz's main weakness is lack of mailing list support.
    >
    > Alas, this is a failing of many otherwise capable MUAs. It's 2004:
    > At this point, I'm willing to consider the lack of reply-to-list to
    > be an Important bug.

    And if TB had a reply-list button for mailing lists it would probably
    also get a proper follow-up button for newsgroups, since it would
    employ the same one. But it just doesn't seem to be a priority for
    either Mozilla or TB, since the relevant bugs (for Mozilla) are
    relatively old, which is unfortunate since the presence of proper
    reply-list/follow-up functions in Mozilla could be used as a bit of a
    bludgeon against the oft-repeated argument that there are no mail
    clients for Windows with such functionality.

    As an aside, are there any mailers for Windows that have a reply-list
    button/function? Eudora? Pegasus? The Bat? I've not used them so I
    really don't know but to my knowledge none of them do. 

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David P James
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