On 11/01/2021 17:41, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Just found this useful Thunderbird add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...bar-customize/

The reply button was driving me nuts!

Thanks for the info. Having twice recently clicked 'Reply' by mistake
instead of 'Followup' that plugin is much appreciated.

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Mike Clarke wrote:
On 11/01/2021 17:41, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Just found this useful Thunderbird add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...bar-customize/

The reply button was driving me nuts!

Thanks for the info. Having twice recently clicked 'Reply' by mistake
instead of 'Followup' that plugin is much appreciated.

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?

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*He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman wrote:

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?

As you're not a thunderbird user, you might not appreciate that by
default it has multiple buttons in multiple toolbars, reply, reply-all
and forward are pretty normal across all mail/news clients, but
thunderbird seems to think it's necessary to have a follow-up button as
well, it seems to confuse people into sending direct email replies to
the O/P, rather than replying to the group, I've always hidden the extra
toolbar ...

On 14/01/2021 11:13, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Clarke wrote:
On 11/01/2021 17:41, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Just found this useful Thunderbird add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...bar-customize/

The reply button was driving me nuts!

Thanks for the info. Having twice recently clicked 'Reply' by mistake
instead of 'Followup' that plugin is much appreciated.

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?

With Thunderbird, to reply to a Usenet post you use Followup. Reply
sends an email to the poster (if not munged).

--
Max Demian

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Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Plowman wrote:

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?

As you're not a thunderbird user, you might not appreciate that by
default it has multiple buttons in multiple toolbars, reply, reply-all
and forward are pretty normal across all mail/news clients, but
thunderbird seems to think it's necessary to have a follow-up button as
well, it seems to confuse people into sending direct email replies to
the O/P, rather than replying to the group, I've always hidden the extra
toolbar ...

Odd, I've got Thunderbird -updated this morning, too. No sign of "Follow Up"

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

charles wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

As you're not a thunderbird user, you might not appreciate that by
default it has multiple buttons in multiple toolbars, reply, reply-all
and forward are pretty normal across all mail/news clients, but
thunderbird seems to think it's necessary to have a follow-up button as
well

Odd, I've got Thunderbird -updated this morning, too. No sign of "Follow Up"

Which toolbar are you looking in, the one at the top of the program, or
the one above the message pane?

On 14/01/2021 11:13, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Clarke wrote:
On 11/01/2021 17:41, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Just found this useful Thunderbird add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...bar-customize/

The reply button was driving me nuts!

Thanks for the info. Having twice recently clicked 'Reply' by mistake
instead of 'Followup' that plugin is much appreciated.

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?


On the newsgroup tool bar there is a follow-up button and a reply
button. The former sends a reply/post to the newsgroup while the latter
sends an email to the poster.

Many people in the past have hidden the reply button or moved it out of
the way. In recent Thunderbird updates the reply button has appeared in
the most dominant position and unlike in the past there is no inbuilt
means of removing or moving the button on the tool bar. I had my
follow-up button positioned in the left hand location on the toolbar and
when, on the update, the reply button appeared in that position I found
that more often than not I hit that button rather than the follow-up button.

After a request on this newsgroup a few months back I was directed to
the plug-in that allowed repositioning and hiding of the tool bar
buttons. I've since seen a couple more posts about the wanting to hide
the reply button on Thunderbirds newsgroup tool-bar so it's not just me
and the OP of this thread who found that the positioning of the reply
button was annoying.

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mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
On 14/01/2021 11:13, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Clarke wrote:
On 11/01/2021 17:41, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Just found this useful Thunderbird add-on

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US...bar-customize/

The reply button was driving me nuts!

Thanks for the info. Having twice recently clicked 'Reply' by mistake
instead of 'Followup' that plugin is much appreciated.

Can you explain? Most reply to an email if needed. So what on earth is
follow up?

With Thunderbird, to reply to a Usenet post you use Followup. Reply
sends an email to the poster (if not munged).

Ah - right. Only ever use Thunderbird very occasionally for email.

Nothing current works as well as the ancient prog I have here. For basic
news and email.

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*Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.