Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:57:02PM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > >>What I want is to always hit the _same_ button when replying to a >>message. If the message comes from a mailing list, I want the reply to go >>to the mailing list; otherwise it shall go to the sender. >> >>I therefore have set up my mail filter to insert "reply-to" headers >>into all incoming messages from mailing lists. >> >>A mailer with three reply functions may be nice, but you'll have to >>consider which button to press for each message again and again... >>Repeated tasks that are not automated tend to go wrong sooner or later. > > > The benefit of three different functions is that sometimes you don't > just want to mail back to the list. > > What if you want to send a private reply? > (Especially if the original poster set Reply-To themself, which you have > overwritten.) > > What if the receipient wants a carbon copy as well as a list reply? What if the universe would end tomorrow? ;-) I'm not saying that such functions wouldn't be nice, but the _default_ behaviour for me has to be that the decision is made automatically. Ok, maybe I should have just been quiet... Klaus
