On 4/9/2014 9:56 AM, Al Iverson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote:
What about recipients' not being able to reply directly to the original
author?
Personally I'd call that a feature if that were removed, I hate it
when list messages are sent directly to a person instead of the list.
But, knowing mine is not the only point of view on that, I found it
trivial to set my reply-to header to contain both the list address and
the original author's address.
Not only is your opinion of liking or disliking (or mine, or pretty much
anyone's on this list) the change nearly irrelevant, but so is our view
of the effort it takes for us to overcome the change.
What matters is the world of 'average' Internet users. None of us is in
that demographic.
In that world, they don't know about setting Reply-to and in many cases
won't have access to it. And in that world, the extra effort of having
to set the field is a /very/ large barrier.
When the reply function was first added to email, in the early 1970s, my
subjective assessment of the effect was that it revolutionized email
use, almost instantly producing a massive increase in traffic. People
could suddenly conduct 'conversation' through email much more easily.
And that was a highly technical user population. In other word, having
to fill out the address field manually was a serious barrier to use.
Average users have not gotten more tolerant of message composition
effort in the intervening 40 years.
If you want to drag the discussion off
list, you can reply and edit the recipient list, which really isn't
all that different than what I had to do right now to be able to reply
only to the list.
They can also learn to program their own MUA, but that doesn't make it a
viable alternative, for dealing with having the ability to easily reply
to an author be suddenly removed.
Again, this change is a paradigm change. There is nothing small about
its effects.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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