[svlug] My escape from Kmail is featured in the 2/2012 issue of Linux Productivity Magazine

[Andrew Wilcox]

On 20/02/2012 23:05, "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

>Often what proponents _really_ mean is 'I want the world to get
>simplified so that I can ignore the semantic distinction between the
>separate reply-all and reply-sender actions.  I want to pretend that
>there is just 'reply', and that 'reply' will always automagically figure
>out what I was thinking and always Do What I Mean.

The sad part is every mail client I've used with the exception of Pine
(that'd be Thunderbird, claws-mail, Mail.app on Mac and iPhone, the Gmail
Web interface, Kmail, Evolution, Eudora, GNUstep's mail client, and even
Outlook) can all be set to automatically reply-all.  That effectively
allows
you to oversimplify and make the hilarious mistakes, without having to
bother mailing list admins about reconfiguring it so that *everyone* is
suddenly forced to deal with your oversimplifications and ineptitude.

*takes off the "I really hate people who don't grok email" hat*

Sometimes I wonder why user education classes even exist.  I also wonder
why
people are afraid to click "edit->preferences" in GUI apps.