On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:42 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Agreed, this really pisses me off. However some people don't realize > they're doing it because in certain Redmond-based mail clients Yes, the clients in question often don't help by fostering bad practices. But it's always been bloody obvious to me that the reply button is for a reply. > I notice the OP is using one of the aforementioned clients. So did I. I often check such things. I used to have the client header showing on the message preview, but it uses up screen space. I think you get negative Brownie-points for using MS mail clients on a Linux list... ;-) We get masses of email on some lists, if you can't sort it sensibly, it becomes a right mess. Many will sort by threads, and completely ignore threads that don't interest them. Hijacks in the middle may well be missed by the person with the answer to the question in the wrong place. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
