On 4/12/2014 3:49 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 12:30 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
Also, I can see good reasoning in the simple concept: when I received
an e-mail from a private person and simply hit reply, I reply to the
person. When I received an e-mail from a discussion-list and simply
hit reply, I expect the reply to go to the discussion-list.
The message came *via* the list. Not *from* it.
Therein likes the problem. The list took delivery of a message from the
author and then re-posted. A mailing list is not a mail relay. It
legally can make any change it wants to the message, because formally it
is posting a new message.
Of course, in terms of human usage, the utility of a mailing list is in
enabling human-to-human exchange, which means properly representing the
original message to its final recipients AND making responding easy.
As has been noted, the expectation about doing a simple reply has been a
source of debate and confusion for a very long time. Hence the default
is configured differently, from one list to the next. It is neither
correct nor helpful to claim that one default is wrong and the other right.
Some MUAs use standards and heuristics to determine that a message is
from a list and these MUAs can behave differentially. But that isn't
the dominate style for MUAs.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net
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