[Python-ideas] string.format() default variable assignment

[James Griffin]

[--------- Sat  2.Mar'13 at 17:54:57 +1100  Chris Angelico :---------]

> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> No offence Chris, but you're the only person I know who *regularly*
> >>> replies to the wrong list. Does your mail client not have a "Reply to
> >>> List" command, or "Reply All"? If so, then you should use it rather than
> >>> manually typing the (wrong) list address in.
> >>
> >> Correct, Gmail doesn't. I should switch to Thunderbird (or something
> >> else, but I've heard a good many recommendations for Tbird) but have
> >> yet to get around to setting it up.
> >
> > Actually, it has a few ways to reply-to-all. In this screenshot, there
> > are three things I could click to reply-to-all:
> > http://imgur.com/914BNuY
> 
> Yes, but reply-all sends a copy to the poster as well as the list.
> What I want is reply-list, acknowledging the list headers... and Gmail
> simply doesn't have that.
> 
> I also want to be able to change my mind as to whether it's
> reply-all/reply-list/reply-sender after typing up a reply. Guess it's
> time I grabbed Tbird to find out if it can do that...

use mutt devel or [Al]pine. Text based MUA's and News readers are more efficient IMO.