On Wed October 13 2004 10:24, Charles Lindsey wrote:
In <416B59C9(_dot_)20506(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
Charles Lindsey wrote:
An MUA that chooses whether to followup to Usenet or to reply using email
simply on the basis of whether a Newsgroups-header is present is severely
broken, since it is normal behaviour for a message which is both posted to
Usenet and emailed to individual recipients to include a Newsgroup-header
(how else are recipients to know that both media were involved).
Charles, as you did not include a Reply-To field pointing to this list,
you forced respondents into using a "reply-to-all" function, and those
UAs which support both news and mail (including Netscape/Mozilla,
Outlook Express, and Pine, several of the most widely used UAs for either
mail or news) include specified newsgroups in such a "reply-to-all".
It does not surprise me in the least that Outlook Express is broken in
that respect, but I would have expected Netscape/Mozilla to have known
better. The only meaning that can be ascribed to the presence of a
Newsgroups header in an email message is that it signifies a message that
was both posted and mailed.
Charles, there is simply no way to distinguish "an email message" from
any other message once it's in a folder that a UA is accessing. You
really do need to at least make an attempt to understand how messaging
works -- it has been explained to you often enough, in words *and* in
pictures.
A User Agent that uses a "Reply" button to initiate a "Followup" is most
certainly broken (see www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa). It is a sad fact that most
MUAs which have been adapted to dual use as newsreaders make a pretty poor
job of their newsreading role.
In the first place, as has been explained to you multiple times, a
"reply-to-all"
function was used -- because you failed to provide any recommendation for
responses to the mailing list; there was no "'Reply' button" involved. In the
second place, all instances under discussion have involved mailing lists;
"Followup" has no meaning and there was no "newsreading role" involved.
In the third place, a personal rant page is not a standard.