Re: OFFTOPIC Re: set reply to list

James (root@kermit.globalnet.co.uk)
Mon, 15 May 2000 22:47:54 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 16 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Mikko Hänninen wrote:

# James <root@kermit.globalnet.co.uk> wrote on Mon, 15 May 2000:
# > # I'm curious, is there some particular reason for you not using
# > # "group-reply"?
# > 
# > what's that?
# 
# In Pine, it's called "Reply to all recipients?".  When you do a reply,
# Pine asks whether you want to reply to all recipients.  If you answer
# yes, you're doing a group-reply.  If no, then it's a private, single
# person reply.

Right, you mean this:

Reply to all recipients?
             Y Yes
^C Cancel    N [No]

(shame, it didn't try and show the colours when i GPM'd the screen, it's
 all purple and blue on my screen :-)

The thing i've made 'No' by default.
 
# Most email programs have these functions separately, Pine's the
# exception here.

Well, it's an either-or thing. You either say Yes and reply-all, or NO
and just reply to the From: address.
 
# BTW, that's the default behaviour I think in Pine.  I'm sure it can be
# changed in the configuration.  I'm no Pine expert so I could be wrong
# in both.

Yeah, you can make it not bother asking, but sometimes i might.

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