Date   : Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:19:07 -0600
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: The whole "reply to" issue

Andrew Rowland wrote:
> I use Outlook?. When I want to reply to the one person who wrote the post, I
> click Reply To; if I want to reply to everybody, I click Reply to All. That
> works. It fills the To box with the private person and the list address
> (either of which I can delete if I want to -- I usually remove the single
> address to stop the recipient getting the reply twice).

Hmm, Thunderbird seems to be broken in that regard - it always puts the list 
address in a cc: field rather than a to: field. If it gave me two to: fields 
and all I had to do was delete one (or if it presented the list in the to: 
field and the individual in cc:) then I agree it's not quite such a big of a 
deal to just double-click and delete the individual's address... (I'm not sure 
if sending a message with just a cc: field works, but it sure 'feels' like it 
should violate some spec or other :-)

Re. the Thunderbird 'patch' - does it also add a "reply to list" menu item 
when I right-click on a message in the message list? That's my normal way of 
initiating a reply, not clicking on one of the toolbar buttons... if it adds 
that functionality I think I'll give it a go.

cheers

Jules