Allow adding (or replying) initial/default recipient when replying to a PM

[pauamma]

Title:
Allow adding (or replying) initial/default recipient when replying to a PM

Area:
inbox, private messages

Summary:
When replying to a Dreamwidth PM sent to you, allow adding recipients to the initial recipient (sender of the message you're replying to), or even replacing that recipient with an arbitrary list, for a quick and dirty forward,

Description:
This wouldn't breach privacy that I can see (who the original message went to), because the only initial recipient of the reply would be the sender, as it already is, and no other recipient of the original message would be offered as a suggestion or listed. (Indeed, that would be impossible, as the list of original recipients isn't kept anywhere. One message sent to several users looks the same as several identical messages sent very close.)

Poll #5205 Allow adding (or replying) initial/default recipient when replying to a PM

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Should be implemented as-is.
13 (26.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
15 (30.6%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (38.8%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (4.1%)

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

Like Nora, I didn't know you could already send the same PM to several people. How do you do that BTW? Use commas?

[yvi]

Yep, use commas. I had to ask in IRC for that, it's not really obvious that it can be done.

[ninetydegrees]

Ok, thanks.
Yeah, I didn't see it mentioned in the FAQs.

[pauamma]

Yeah. Worth a clarification in the UI and FAQ, I think.

[pauamma]

Yes, commas between usernames. (And I thought everyone knew this, but now that I checked, I see it's not mentioned in the compose form or in FAQ 68. Want to suggest a clarification?)

[ninetydegrees]

Want to suggest a clarification?

Definitely but it's unclear to me where one should do that, these days. Comment on dw_docs? File a bug for Project Documentation? So most of the time, I don't say anything because I don't know where it should go (and also it doesn't seem that the stuff we were encouraged to mention in dw_docs are being read by anybody).

[pauamma]

Probably file a bug, since you have a Zilla account. (If you didn't, a suggestion would probably work.)

I don't know what the dw_docs status is now. I'm not actively involved in doc wrangling.

[matgb]

File a bug. And when my life isn't a complete mess, I'll figure out how to get things organised properly.

Theoretically, I'm taking over Docs, but at no point since I agreed to do it have we had a week without some sort of crisis and my brain isn't catching up.

[ninetydegrees]

Ok, done. Thanks.