Remove the "Reply" button for NNTP messages
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(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
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(Reporter: Manuel.Spam, Unassigned)
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As the message header toolbar is no longer customizable, it really is a pain to work with newsgroups in Thunderbird. I had removed the standard "Reply" button altogether as I also have this option in the "Smart Reply" button if I really need it. Usually the preselected default of "Smart Reply" always was what I wanted, so no need to have this separate "Reply" button next to it.
I really tried to get used to it, but after over 20 times where I had to copy my newsgroup reply over to a new "Followup" (having to enter my SMTP passwort is everything that prevented me from replying to the poster only), I finally added this to my userChrome.css:
toolbarbutton#hdrReplyToSenderButton {
display: none !important;
}
So please get rid of the "Reply" button if the open message is a NNTP post. Maybe related to Bug 1037578 as it may be actually the best idea to just get rid of the "Reply" button altogether. The option is always available in the dropdown of the "Smart Reply" button.
Comment 1•4 years ago
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(In reply to Manuel Reimer from comment #0)
As the message header toolbar is no longer customizable,
See: Bug 1556261
Just my (1(1¢)
Comment 2•3 years ago
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duplicate?
Comment 3•3 years ago
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(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #2)
duplicate?
Somewhat loosely. Seems to not so much be referring to the generic Reply button but it's relation to message headers which, to me, doesn't make sense. Unless I am reading and understanding it wrong. What do headers have to do with whether or not the Reply button confuses a user when they reply to an NNTP message. Reply always means to reply to the email address of the message author. Follow up means reply to the message itself. Headers and Reply button seems mutually exclusive to me.
But this latest comment in bug 1556261 from the Betterbird person seems to show the Reply button in the customization window. If the Reply button just exists whether a user is in NNTP or in email, then it should just exist I would think. IMHO, it's incumbent upon the user to know whether they're 1) replying to the NNTP message OR 2) replying to the email address in the HEADER of the NNTP message which is the author. It's the user who has to know and choose to what they are replying, not TB.
IF, and it's a huge IF, there was a way to have a setting that does some kind of Smart Reply Mode that, for NNTP only, sets TB to ALWAYS reply to the NNTP message and NEVER reply to the NNTP message author's email listed in the NNTP message header, that might be a better solution than to just remove the Reply button. Or, perhaps a more safer solution, when a user clicks Reply to an NNTP message they are presented with a choice of "Reply to NNTP message author" or "Reply to NNTP message". The second is usually the standard.
After 31 years of using Usenet, even I just recently ditched Usenet.
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