[Gambas-user] MUA "Reply" should not behave as "Reply List" (was Re: M/L replying to users email not the list)

[T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx>]

As I deleted the original email message, here is the reference:
https://lists.gambas-basic.org/archive/user/2024-03/0000072.html

'Thunderbird handles correctly "Mail-Reply-To". It makes the "Reply" button acts like the "Reply to list" button, avoiding the 
mistake not to answer the mailing-list.'

I disagree that it is a "mistake" not to answer to the mailing-list when one uses the "Reply" button, but the opposite. It is a 
mistake to reply to the list when one intended to reply privately.

The author of this page, https://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-harmful.html (the link to which was recently sent to me), 
writes about the "Principle of Least Surprise" and the "Principle of Least Damage". "Reply" behaving as "Reply List" goes 
against both of those principles.

Users of the Thunderbird MUA, at least, should be able to customize its behavior to their liking. Although old, some of 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Mail-Followup-To_and_Mail-Reply-To#Configure_Thunderbird may still be 
applicable. I do not know what the solution would be for users of the Gmail web interface as I do not use it.


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Lee

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