Comment 39 for bug 52667

I'm not currently using either the suite or t'bird, but as the original reporter
maybe I can comment anyway.

I wouldn't ever consider using a mailer that didn't give me an option to reply
privately, or which required me to edit headers in order to do so. I do private
replies a lot, even in mailing lists, and one of the reasons I stopped using
mozilla mail was that I wanted a mailer which allowed me to reply privately even
on lists that munge reply-to.

It makes a lot more sense to leave the Reply button as a private reply, and
replace the Reply All button's default functionality with Reply to List (while
keeping Reply to All available as another option in the dropdown button), since
Reply All is seldom useful on a mailing list. List replies and private replies
are both very common cases and they should both be easy to get to. By putting
list-reply on the Reply All button, you maintain the usual sense that that
button replies to multiple people, while the Reply button replies to only the
sender; the user doesn't have to remember context to figure out which button
replies to multiple people. (Yes, I know mozilla reverses this for newsgroups,
but there are lots of things wrong with how mozilla handles newsgroups).