BAD MSG:
force the write of a reply to specify which of the recipients
f a multi-recipient message to send the reply to (and also
of course allow the user to add additional recipients who did
not get the original message at all.)

To have one single reply command, with one default set of recipients,
would simply make things even worse. Thus, you are saying that
no defaults should be allowed for the recipients to a reply.

My experience is that this is a case where uses often make mistakes.
Especially embarrasing is when users by mistake send personal messages
to larger groups than intended. So this is a reason for not having
any default recipients.

However, people wants things to be simple, so would users accept
a mail system which did not use any defaults for reply recipients?
The choice of two commands, or two variants of a command (plus
of course the option of specifying recipients individually)
might be what users want?

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme