Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:17:26
Message-Id: 4534125A.1080908@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Developer retirement by Jakub Moc
1 Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > Harald van Dijk napsal(a):
3 >> It's meant to be used when the user chooses to reply to the list. That
4 >> is not necessarily the function of the "Reply" button. In mutt, and IIRC
5 >> in Thunderbird as well, "reply" is intended to mean "reply to author",
6 >> and there is a separate "reply to list" function which works on
7 >> gentoo-core and gentoo-dev just the same.
8 >
9 > Well, there's no "reply to list" function in Thunderbird [1], and
10 > there's no such function in a couple more clients. And it's pretty
11 > annoying when people use "reply to all" instead because their client
12 > doesn't have such feature.
13 >
14 > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45715
15 >
16 >
17
18 We are all responsible adults here. In the real world you don't always
19 get your way and sometimes you have to deal with minor issues like: your
20 mail client doesn't reply automatically to the correct people or you are
21 forced into using MS Exchange with no SSL-IMAP. It's a glitch; it's
22 annoying; PEOPLE DEAL WITH IT EVERY DAY.
23
24 So seriously, chill a bit man; check before you send mail. Sometimes
25 you screw up, so does everyone else. There is no reason to have a long
26 silly thread about it.
27
28 In short, drop it or take it elsewhere.
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