Hi all, The mailing list dev@commons.apache.org appears to always and forcibly set the header Reply-To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>. I had asked INFRA to remove this remove the reply-to munging. They asked for documented consensus before making this change.
This is broken for multiple reasons. It violates RFC 2822 which requires that reply-to MUST only be used for when " ... the author of the message suggests that replies be sent." While this should be enough, it is useful to explain some of the reasoning the standard is the way it is: - It breaks MUAs that have "reply to all" and "reply" (and maybe even "reply to list"). In doing so, having this setting greatly increases the chance of privacy violations by people that expect the mailing lists to act normally. If you're trying to send a private reply using the normal method to reply, the message will be made public. - It adds nothing: by means of copy and paste a private reply is still possible, just annoying, and a workaround for a broken mailing list - Some mail readers provide 'personal mail' indicators. This only triggered when you are on the CC or TO lines. The 'feature' breaks this. - Some people prefer mail CCed to them as well as the mailing list, especially if reading a mailing list is lower priority than personal mail. As such I'd like to vote that we fix the dev@ mailing list +1 = the mailing list misconfiguration will be removed -1 = the mailing list will continue to remain broken -- Eitan Adler --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
