On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:07:15AM -0400, Miden wrote:
> > I use mutt - if I press "r" it will reply to the sender of the
> > message, "g" will reply to sender and list, and "L" will reply to
> > the list.
>
> Or you could pretend you're in the 21st century (Wait! We are! We
> are!) and use something like Evolution which does all of the above
> with a few keystrokes or from a menu, sorts mail, keeps track of and
> manages addresses/contacts, manage tasks, has a calendar to list and
> notify you of appointments etc. and all that with a usable GUI! And
> it will filter spam (ok that one is so-so).
Or you could not get preachy on me. ;) (joking aside)
mutt *is* a 21st century client (1995-2006), and is continually under
development. Some of us simply don't *want* a GUI mail client. We
actually prefer seeing only text in a text console, using our editor
of choice to edit messages, and leaving other tasks (spam filtering,
tasklist/calendar, contacts) to their own specialised applications.
Most of the other text-based mail clients have fallen away, but mutt
remains a modern console-based mail reader.
However, I certainly endorse GUI clients for those who just want to
get online and go. In particular, I found "balsa" to be good for
Eudora converts, since it follows a very similar UI design.
Back to the topic at hand: No matter what client you use, you should
have options to do a direct personal reply, a group reply ("reply to
all"), and sometimes a list-only reply. These have become pretty
ubiquitous in e-mail applications. These both map to the list as
expected, such that group reply is to everyone, and personal reply is
to the message author only. (Reply-to munging breaks that.)
And that's about all I have to say on the matter, since (aside from
some technical content about mail clients) I'm beginning to worry I'm
wandering off topic for this list. :)
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