[ale] a request for list change

[James P. Kinney III]

Not hard, just more time consuming than I can handle right now. It has
greatly cut down on my personal, side-note postings.

Which the lack of no one has complained about.

Hmm.

;)

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:51, James Sumners wrote:
> how difficult is it to hit reply and change the to field? more often than not
> replies should go to the list so it only makes sense that when you hit reply
> your message goes back to the list.
> 
> On 26 Feb 2003 10:41:02 -0500
> "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > I know this has been discussed here before, but ...
> > 
> > 
> > It is incredibly irritating that the headers have been so rewritten on
> > ALE mail that I can't reply offline to someone without extracting the
> > original mail message, composing a new message and dropping the original
> > message.
> > 
> > I have a big disagreement with the language logic that the mailing list
> > app is using. The Sender is the original author. If I reply to sender,
> > my em,ail should go to them, not the list. If I "reply to all" it should
> > go to the list without a duplicate being sent to the sender, it should
> > come through the list mail.
> > 
> > I haven't had the time this week to dig through RFC's on email header
> > protocol, but I have dug in the past on Evolution's handling of email.
> > It seems to be rather RFC-compliant. Which tells me that the behavior of
> > the mailing list software may be bending some protocols a bit more than
> > I am happy with.
> > 
> > grr. <with recognition that _I_ don't run the list software and am very
> > thankful for the efforts of those that do, and would also understand if
> > "this is the way these things work" even if _I_ don't like it>
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
> 
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James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

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