At our school, some teachers click ReplyAll unthinkingly to many e-mails, causing 100 people to receive irrelevant (and sometimes inappropriate) replies. I would like to provide some constraints or reminders, so that a ReplyAll button requires an extra thoughtful step, in hopes of reducing the irrelevant spray of replies. One simple but over-general answer is to automatically display a confirmation dialogbox after clicking ReplyAll. In My Humble Opinion, that is not too irritating to always confirm after clicking ReplyAll. However, it could become a Settings option, either as a personal or domain-wide setting. Another option would be for the system to analyze how many recipients are addressed in the reply, and prompt for confirmation if there are “too many” – just as the system now prompts for confirmation if I reply to an out-of-domain address. (How many is too many? again, a domain-wide Setting is a logical place, with 10 as a reasonable default value). Yes, the Group off...
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