I fully intended to stay out of this, because it is a well-known
rathole, but ...
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Keith Moore wrote:
- People often end up wanting to change the recipient list of a reply
after they have started composing the text of a message, indicating that
the
"push the right reply button before you compose" model is broken.
I rarely want to change the recipient list, so I might dispute your
"often". But when I do, my MUA allows me to. I don't think anyone
disagrees with the notion that whatever button the user pushes, the MUA
should construct some recipient list, and then let the user modify it if
he/she wishes.
- It's not as if 95% of repliers want to do the same thing in every case.
In my case, at least 99.9% of the time, I hit "R" and "Y" in Pine to
"reply to all" when replying, either to personal or mailing list
messages. Probably about 0.9% of the time I then modify the list of
recipients. The other 0.1% is when there is a message of such import
that I decide in advance that I want to do something unusual.
Small mistakes in communications can have large consequences.
That is certainly true.
Philip
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10(_at_)cus(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk Cambridge, England. Phone: +44
1223 334714.