[ale] a request for list change

[Geoffrey]

I personally liked the way it was configured before, at least then I 
could select reply to all, and the cut out the email addresses I didn't 
want it to go to.  As it is now, I can not respond to an individual 
without manually entering the address...

My preference would be that it would be the way it used to be, that is, 
the From was the original poster, the To: would include ale.  This way, 
you can respond to the list or poster easily.

I'd also be acceptable to having the From be ale and the To be the 
original poster, but I think that would cause posters to get the email 
twice, which would be ugly.

I know we beat this one up pretty good before, but it's stung a couple 
of us when attempting to respond to the poster, only to see our posts go 
to the list.

So dare we bring this discussion up again???

James P. Kinney III 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>
> 

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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