On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 22:36 +0100, Jonathan H wrote: > > And this mailing list is doing my head in - the software is so > hopelessly antiquated, it won't even tag subject lines with > "get_iplayer".
Why would it do that? The reverse-path of the message clearly identifies where it comes from, so if you want to filter list traffic into a separate folder you can do it cleanly and safely without false positives when someone explicitly adds you to Cc. Adding noise to the subject line is just pointless. > And it also defaults to replying to the sender, not the > list (as I just noticed after my post failed to appear after 8 hours!) Your mailer has a 'private reply' and a 'reply to all' feature, surely? If you choose 'private reply' (often just labelled 'reply'), why would you be surprised at what it does? Some mailing lists do have an abusive setup which hijacks the *private* reply and makes it go back to the list. And thus, things which were meant to be *private* can end up being sent to the public list. That's a stupid way to configure a list. Yes, it might be inconvenient occasionally if someone forgets how to drive their own mail client and uses the private reply instead of the group reply. But the failure mode is relatively harmless — you just send the message again, correctly this time. The failure mode when a private message ends up in public can be *much* worse. -- dwmw2
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