Hi all, Please do not set reply-to.
I agree with Mathieu and Jacques, and the sentiment in http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . In a formal vote I would want to say -0.8: if absolutely everybody was in favour, I could live with it, but it is still a bad idea. We are talking about guarding against mistakes, either sending to the list when the intent was to communicate with only one person, or the other way around. If someone mistakenly sends to just one person, the damage is minimal - the recipient may well notice and say "hey, did you intend this to go to the list?". A personal message mistakenly sent to the list could be much more embarrassing and damaging. I administer another mailing list for a non-profit group and this issue has cropped up. We added to the footer of the messages "Reply will send a response to the sender. Please use Reply To All to send a response to the list." That seemed to satisfy everyone. I have no problem with additional headers that some email clients might understand. Cheers Paul Foxworthy On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 20:08, Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Jacques, > > Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> writes: > > > Le 13/06/2019 à 15:19, Mathieu Lirzin a écrit : > >> Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]> writes: > >> > >>> I don't agree, as an ASF member I reply to a lot of MLs. I don't want > to be bothered by that for all of them. > >>> Deepak's answer with INFRA-18478 seems to be the way we should handle > that. > >> > >> If you have a huge pile of ML subscriptions (50? 100?), you can > >> configure your email client incrementally each time you send an email to > >> a list that is not already configured and someday they will eventually > >> all be properly configured. \o/ > >> > >> Thanks. > > I tried but could not find a way in a reasonable time > > After doing some research I have found a documentation [1] which is not > directly about setting the ‘Reply-to’ header but the ‘Mail-Followup-To’ > and ‘Mail-Reply-To’ headers which are workarounds for the “reply-to > munging” done by mailing-lists [2]. > > After configuring Thunderbird this way, people using Mail User Agents > (MUA) understanding those headers [3] will not have to remember to > remove you from the recipient list when responding to the list. > > I haven't found any information regarding Gmail or other Webmail > clients, but hopefully they understand those headers too. > > Thanks. > > [1] > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Mail-Followup-To_and_Mail-Reply-To > [2] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html > [3] https://www.leptonite.org/mft/software.html > > -- > Mathieu Lirzin > GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 > -- Coherent Software Australia Pty Ltd PO Box 2773 Cheltenham Vic 3192 Australia Phone: +61 3 9585 6788 Web: http://www.coherentsoftware.com.au/ Email: [email protected]
