[horde] [imp] default reply behavior in dimp/imp

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Graeme Wood <Graeme.Wood at ed.ac.uk>:

> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Ralf Lang wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:40:34 schrieb Brent:
>>> me it is going to the person
>>> that sent the message.  Sure, there is a pop-up that indicates what is
>>> going to happen, but habits are hard to break.  I think there should
>>> be another button like Outlook has for "Reply To All"; or if you
>>> insist on the one-button-to-rule-them-all, make the button text say
>>> something like "Reply To..." and force the user choose what they want.
>>>  I don't think any button with logic behind it should automatically
>>> make a default selection, especially with a heated debate about what
>>> the default should be.  Developers seem to like their feature, while
>>> users/administrators want to change it.
>>
>> Sorry, you're misunderstanding me. I haven't developed this. But I like it
>> that way. In both Kontact and horde. Users, that's also me. This is actually
>> running in my company and nobody complains (our boss is a smart one).
>>
>> BTW, in thunderbird, when you hit "reply" in a mailing list  
>> conversation, it's
>> reply to mailing list - not reply to sender.
>
> This isn't true for me. There are two buttons in Thunderbird when  
> viewing a message sent to a list: Reply, which replies to the sender  
> and Reply list, which replies to the list but also provides a  
> drop-down menu to reply to all (list and sender) or reply (to just  
> the sender).

This is entirely broken UI then.  You simply cannot make it easy (and,  
in Thunderbird's case, the preferred option) to respond directly to  
the poster instead of the list.  As a member of a mailing list, I am  
not speaking to you personally: I am speaking to the list.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]