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IOD: Bury the Reply All Button

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Does everyone really need to get the mail you are about to send?  Do you really intend to "big-R" as opposed to "little-r" or maybe even "slightly-less-big-r"? 

I removed the "Reply All" button from the toolbar and the right click menu on one of my machines.  After two weeks I can say that this should be to the default setting for outlook.  The reply all button is still there... its just I have to go into a menu to get it.  This makes you think a little more about using this "spam command".  

Just another idea that might help cut off e-mail clutter at it's source.

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  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2006
    You must not post to too many mailing lists then, as most (IMO, the correctly setup ones) mailling lists send the proper headers so that Reply merely sends the author of a post and Reply All to the entire group.  This is an easy rule to learn, but has you quite often using Reply All.

    A better change might be to briefly highlight the Addresses in the reply a visual indicator to the user to double check that they are replying to the correct people (which should be your habit anyway).
  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 05, 2006
    And YES it is email to a project group so it must be Reply All not just Reply.
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    Max: I don't think the mailing lists I'm on are set up correctly then. :-)

    Jorgie: I never said you can't reply all.  Its just in the menu now on my machine. Of course there are lots of valid reasons to do so.  I wouldn't remove it from the machine.

    Jim:  Yeah, I've noticed that there are a lot of people in either camp 1 or 2 that you mentioned. There are several people who will ask why you don't include them in everything, but others that will go so far as to plead with the thread to remove them.  Not knowing the difference between the two sets is something that catches you all to often.
  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2006
    I've had the "Reply to All..." button off my my toolbar for several years now and haven't missed it one bit.  There's no need for "Reply to All..." sitting there begging to be (improperly) used.

    How did you get it off the right-click context menu?
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    February 06, 2006
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