mail to individuals

[Michael Haney]

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey, here's a novel idea:
> try an un-broken email client.  I suggest Claws mail just because
> I /know/ it to work correctly without jumping through cut/paste/delete
> hoops.
> If, after you at least /try/ an email package that works correctly, you
> can't see the difference, well, I just can't find common ground.
>
> I say that at least Claws mail works correctly, others have said that
> their clients work correctly.  If it is the list that is broken how is
> it possible that some clients work and others do not?
>
> That is my only claim; that since some mailer proggies do and some do
> not, it is the proggies, not the list config, that is at fault.
>

First of all, that's an unreasonable request.  You are saying that
people should all inconvenience themselves by switching to a totally
different email client because you say the others are broken and you
don't really want to fix the real problem.  I'm sorry but reality
doesn't work that way.  Those of us who use Gmail directly do so
because we want to be able to access our email from anywhere and from
nearly any Web capable device.  If we use a client program we can't do
that anymore.  This would actually take away functionality, which is
an unacceptable down-grade.

The most sensible and logical way to resolve this is to add a Reply-To
line in the mail headers pointing to the List and the problem will
simply go away.  It doesn't inconvenience anyone, doesn't require
anyone to give up the email client they're familiar with and/or
comfortable with and thus is fair for everyone.  Anything else is
completely and utterly unacceptable.

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