[blml] This is how Reply should work

[Jerry Fusselman]

On 8/13/07, Eric Landau <ehaa at starpower.net> wrote:
>
> Here's what works for me:  I have assigned "blml" as a nickname for
> the list.  I never use "Reply to all", which can be accident-prone.

How ironic that on this particular email, Eric used "Reply to all" and
thus sent two copies to Alain.  When such brilliant people have
problems getting the result they want, it seems well to consider a
change.  There have been several hundred posts apologizing for
accidental sends to individuals when only BLML was intended.

(Personally I don't mind receiving two copies, because gmail only
shows one copy.)

Until Henk's change today, when I presses "Reply" I got To the poster,
not BLML.  When I pressed "Reply to all" I got To the poster and Cc
BLML.  So I had to always remember to "Reply to all" and then delete
the poster's name and move BLML to To.

My main wish was to have "Reply" populate the To field with BLML,
which Henk has now provided---thanks!  However, "Reply to All" now
functions just like Reply does on my gmail account, and I would
therefore (apparently) have to look up an individual email address if
I wanted to sent an email to the most-recent poster instead of all of
BLML.  Overall, I like Henk's change.

Jerry Fusselman