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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:58:27 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: Don't feed the troll...
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On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:29:35 +1000
Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Bah. Plenty of us like both. In the inbox alerts me that someone
> > replied to _my_ post, and in the python mail gets it nicely
> > threaded.
>=20
> Your mail client doesn't alert you to a message addressed to you?

Every message in my mailbox is addressed to me otherwise I wouldn't
get it.  Do you mean the To: line?  Which address?  I have about a
dozen addresses not counting the plus sign addresses like the one you
use for this list. Which one should I treat as special?

> > Sorry, I could have sworn you said you weren't using a mail client
> > for this...
>=20
> As I already said, this is demonstrating the fact that =E2=80=9Creply to =
all=E2=80=9D
> is broken even for the use case of participating via email.

As the person who proposed this I would like to point out that I never
suggested "reply to all=E2=80=9D.  I suggested including the poster that you
are replying to.

--=20
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