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[Matthew East]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:49 +0800, John wrote:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op ma, 10-04-2006 te 08:02 +0000, schreef William Grant: 
> > 
> >>From what I can see, there is no way of automatically replying only to
> >>the list from within Thunderbird (or should I say 'Mail/News'), so the
> >>behaviour of replying to both is inevitable if a Reply-To: header is not
> >>given. 
> > 
> > 
> > If your mail client is broken 
> 
> This is a pathetic patronising response.

I don't think it's patronising, see below.

> If Ubuntu's shipping broken software, then Ubuntu should be taking steps 
> to get it fixed.

Ubuntu tries to fix bugs in Ubuntu. Where bugs are upstream, often that
is the best place for the bug to be fixed, and the bug is reported
upstream.

> If not, then its mailing lists should conform with the way the email 
> clients it ships actually work.

Mail clients should be able to handle mailing lists, not the other way
round. But, if that's wrong, the default mail client in Ubuntu has the
correct tools.

Matt
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