When it gets down to the implementation level, I would mention one detail, and that is to be careful of who the recipient is in the case of a PM to a forum post. I've seen people use "reply to sender"

Brian, possibly this is what you meant, but you described it terms of a button. I'm not down to "buttons" yet. :-) -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author. It's dumb to buy smart water.

Yes. Or, the "PM" function would be called instead of the "reply" function. Believe it or not, I've seen a few yahoo groups like that. -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author. It's dumb

It is NOT what I'm proposing or imagining. I'm nowhere near that level of detail yet. You can do that, you can not do it. Doesn't matter. (And I think you/we probably DO want to do it.) I'm proposing

On those groups the "Reply" link or button itself should be substituted with "Private Message to Sender." The option for "Reply to group" could be a part of a the hidden "more actions" hierarchy, in

Sue, That's what I imagine the third radio button, Moderators, would do. But see my recent reply to Maria for another way to arrange these options. It also provides the option to forward ("Report")

I've seen, and experienced, it implemented with and without the sender's (as in the message sender's - not the original poster's) e-mail address. I've seen that in both within-site PM system, hybrids

Brian, I disagree. Groups.io has features beyond what you've described for the web forums in your experience. In particular Groups.io supports groups in which the default reply is direct to the

Maria, Try this on for size, I have an idea that I think may satisfy our goals as well as J and Brian's. Maybe mock it up for me. Or just mock me for it ;-) ----- Context: viewing a message.

J, Well here I'm going to agree with what you said, while disagreeing that it ought to be applied here. I suspect that "PM" carries with it semantics (expectations) that are wholly different from

Hi Mark, Why can't Reply work the way it works when a Group Owner clicks on New Topic - but in addition to the Drop Down on the From line (to choose either his personal address or his owner's

The original link I had for github markdown was https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown/, but it now redirects to https://help.github.com/categories/writing-on-github/ The page to

Sue, I've been keeping a browser tab aside for the /test page, using the back button immediately after switching modes (and then refreshing the page so it shows my current mode). I kind of wish it

Mark, Note: Contrary to the thread tags, I'm looking at this on desktop. Probably the same applies to mobile. I think these changes would be welcome also in the Markdown and Plain Text modes, even

 Thanks Brian. I figured that was most likely the case, but it was worth asking.

Carlos, At the moment, I do not believe this is possible by any built-in mechanism and I have posted recently about using the site: operator of virtually any search engine to do complex

Mark, When in the test version on desktop I'm not seeing any control to set the message body format - HTML, Markdown, or Plain Text. Nope. Wasn't under the "More" button (not that I thought it

I see "changed posting status" in a member's own activity page, but it does not seem to be logged in the overall Member Activity. It would be convenient to have log entries for that there as

Full confession: I, too, was confused. And I still have to go through mental gyrations each time I click on it. Sent from my iPhone -- J Messages are the sole opinion of the author. It's dumb to

Mark, I'm not entirely sure what "covered" means (at least one body match in the thread?) but I still believe that reporting the Subject match is NOT redundant, and should not be suppressed. But