On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It may be common knowledge. It is not reflexive behaviour. People reach for > plain reply by habit. Happens all the time, very common. Since you are taking your assumptions as truth, I'll do the same: The only people that have a "reply" reflexive behavior are the ones that know that "reply" will work most of the time: people subscribed mostly to munged mailing lists that don't receive group mail. The people that are on non-munged mailing lists don't have that reflexive behavior; either they never developed it, or they grew out of it. And the common population don't have that reflexive behavior either; they click sometimes "reply", sometimes "reply to all", but sometimes they make mistakes, not out of reflexive behavior; they just forget. > Personally I think mail readers should have buttons labelled "Reply" (meaning > reply-to-all) and "Reply only to author" (meaning what the button labelled > "reply" usually mean now). > > It is _usually_ better to reply-to-all in ad hoc groups like the above > example, and also better to reply-to-all in one-to-one conversation > (where the buttons mean the same thing). True, but that's irrelevant, what's relevant is how most of the clients behave *right now*. > So I, for one, would advocate going back in time and changing the > "default" reply button's meaning. Then the situation that _drives_ the > common list configuration of the reply-to would not be as prevalent. I agree with that. However people can learn. Even a monkey quickly learns to press a new button for food, and stop pressing the old one which now gives electroshocks. -- Felipe Contreras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
