Maxim Kammerer said: > ... Any decent mailing list uses reply-to-list as a default. ...
Pardon me, but that's not true. GNU Mailman is a decent list server and it ships with reply-to-sender. You must go out of your way to munge the Reply-to header. They recommend against it: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html > ... no new information has been brought in this thread. That seems unlikely. I think the new information is that *this* > ... preventing personal replies from being inadvertently sent to the > entire list. is now recognized to be a safety issue. Matt Mackall said: > 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>. ... How many... minor inconveniences equal > one job lost or life endangered? ... Isn't that a valid point? -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Maxim Kammerer said: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Michael Allan <m...@zelea.com> wrote: > > But it now appears that safety is a concern (as Matt points out), > > which wasn't originally understood. Since it's a question of safety > > vs. convenience, then maybe it's better to revert immediately to the > > default setting (the safer one). > > How about no? Any decent mailing list uses reply-to-list as a default. > The original survey stated: > > Reply to entire list or individual sender: > - Advantage of replying to individual sender includes preventing > personal replies from being inadvertently sent to the entire list. > > Advantages of replying to entire list include: > - Preventing people who forward emails from the list from > unnecessarily exposing subscribers' email addresses > - Preventing list server from having to filter email to subscribers > who are in To: or Cc: (if anything goes wrong, they get an email > twice) > - Reducing both the strain on the server and the risk of triggering spam > filters > > So no new information has been brought in this thread. > > -- > Maxim Kammerer > Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- 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
