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Okay, this is the 21st Centuary right? Why don't email clients have
the ability to send and parse more meta-data about who the correct
_people_ to reply to are?
I'm not talking about the Reply-To header in my email, which as we all
know can only say which email address the person should reply to if they
want to send info to the entitiy that sent the original mail. I'm talking
about setting a reply to for whole sets of people.
Typical example. Someone sends out a list to a whole bunch of people
saying "Drinks at my place, mail me if you're coming". Why can't they set
some headers that mean that if someone hits reply on thier mail client
then it automatically replies to them and just them? (rather than forcing
the decision of reply to sender or reply to all on the person that
recieves the mail)
Same situation, but on getting my invite I notice that they've forgotten
to put the date of the meeting. Currently I have to email everyone in the
group to say "Oi, mate, what date?" so the original sender can reply with
"Oh deary me, I am *so* sorry, I meant the third wednesday of the month."
What would be nice is that I can reply to the original sender and set the
default reply to send to everyone in the group. I mean, the other members
of the group don't need to know she's forgotten the date - they only need
to see the reply with the correction.
You get the idea.
But no, our software is dumb. And so my inbox is full of crud.
GAH.
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
print q{Mark Fowler, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx, http://twoshortplanks.com/};
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