On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 14:39 -0700, Matt Simerson wrote: > > * Whether a poorly considered email is sent publicly or privately is often of little consequence.
Sometimes. But you tailor what you say to the recipients. Sometimes you misjudge how much you should trust them to keep it private, but hopefully that isn't the norm. And we're not just talking about "poorly-considered" email. An email which is perfectly well-considered when sent to an individual might not be appropriate if you hack my MUA and trick it into responding to the list. Perhaps it contains company sensitive information, and is *intended* to be sent to someone who is under an NDA? > * Setting reply-to-sender inconveniences *everyone* on a list > nearly every time they post, Why would it inconvenience anyone? I have a private "Reply" button which should go only to the author, and a "Group Reply" button which will go back to the list. It's nice and simple and nobody is inconvenienced. I simply choose the one I want. Or is this "inconvenience" of which you speak limited to the fact that I have to hit 'Shift' as well as Ctrl-R, or move my mouse a few pixels to the right? It's also *really* simple, and if nobody screwed with Reply-To: then even the hard-of-understanding should be able to cope with it. The only time it starts to get confusing is when someone plays tricks to make the private "Reply" actually do the same as "Group Reply" should. I understand that it's done to mollycoddle the hard-of-understanding when they actively do the wrong thing, but it's actually confusing the issue and making it more *likely* that they'll do the wrong thing, because the behaviour of those actions is no longer consistent. But this is a discussion which has been had elsewhere. The relevant to this list is that overriding the From: header to point back to the list, as a matter of course, is *not* something which it is acceptable to mandate that MLMs do in our Brave New World. -- dwmw2
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