Subject: idea for how to reply to lists

From: Frank Tobin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 00:20:23 -0600 (CST)

Ingredient #1:
Many of us have been subject to the same old Reply-To: arguments, about
whether to not mailing lists should set this to help users/mailers discern
where to reply to on lists.  Often it comes down to a discussion the
un/competence of certain mailers, and of course, pine vs. mutt is brought
into it somehow.

Ingredient #2:
In Pine, it is cumbersome to reply only to a list.  The shortest method I
know of is to Reply to All, Ctrl-K a lot to cut out the non-list
recipients, and then move the list address to the To: field.

Ingredient #3:
As this list (pine-info) uses, there is an RFC or other standard of sorts
that recommends lists put in the List-* headers.

Ingredient #4:
Pine recognizes the List-* headers, and allows the user to interact with
them.

Mix and stir...Bing! *light in head goes on*

If a user replies to a mesage with a List-Post header, Pine could offer an
option for the user to reply to the list itself only, without any other
recipients.  For example, the Reply command would bring up:
Reply-To: (A)ll (L)ist (F)rom.

This would help users a _lot_ when they are deciding how to reply to
messages.

Please, pretty please, someone think about this.  I don't think there are 
any drawbacks to this sort of solution, and it solves the problem
succintly.

-- 
Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

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