On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 19:08 -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by > default been broached?
Reply-to-list poses a significant usability risk that can escalate into a security issue, so it's unfortunate that it's being used here of all places. Let me relate a personal example from several years ago: A: <operational discussion on activist group list> B: Right on! ps: how's <extremely embarassing private matter> going? B: Oh SH*#&$#*T, I'm SOOOOO sorry, I didn't mean to reply-all!! I feel horrible!! It's quite easy to imagine <extremely embarassing private matter> being replaced by <career-ending aside> on most lists, but on this one in particular it might be replaced by <potentially life-endangering datum>. Now compare this to the typical fall-out that happens without reply-to: A: <operational discussion on activist group list> B: <public reply accidentally sent privately> B: Oops, sent that privately, sorry for the duplicate. How many such minor inconveniences equal one job lost or life endangered? In my opinion, no list should use reply-to-list. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
