On 2014-01-14 7:46 PM, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:

I know about the "Reply List" thing; I neglected to mention, in fact, that I tried both "Reply All" and manually invoking "Reply List", with identical results.

Look; "Reply All" is obviously doing the right thing now as I post this reply. It's going to you, Arne, and Cc: to the RCU list!

So does that mean that it did, or that it didn't detect a mailing list?

(Is this feature tested only against the RCU list?)

I don't agree with "Reply All" doing a "Reply List" if a mailing list is detected. The proper way to reply to a mailing list is "Reply All". Which means ...

There is absolutely no need for a "Reply List" misfeature.

Au contraire... 'Reply-To-List' is extremely important, and extremely useful.

However, I believe that invoking it when 'Reply-All' is used is just plain broken. It should only be invoked when the ordinary 'Reply' is used.

Reply-All should remain Reply-All.

For users who really want this, the button should be called "Click here to reply in a moronic way if you think that RFC stands for some sort of fried chicken franchise".

What is moronic is someone clicking 'Reply-All' on a discussion list and sending duplicate emails to the sender. Reply-To-List solves that problem nicely - for anyone with half a brain that learns how to use it.

Sadly, there are far too many moronic users, even on the technical side of things.

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Best regards,

Charles