On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:26 +0100, Owen Smith wrote: > Every other mailing list I am subscribed to causes Reply to go back to > the list. The Reply-To: header is completely standard and it is not a > horrible abuse to use it. The other alternative is for emails to be > From: the list. I'm on various mailing lists, some insert Reply-To: > and some change From:. This is the expected behaviour with mailing > lists.
You are obviously subscribed to a different set of lists than I am :) > We keep getting replies to individuals not the list, so clearly a > number of people on the list have a problem with the way it behaves. Perhaps so. But I have no sympathy. It really isn't hard to press the right button; I'm not aware of *any* mailers which don't give you the choice. And really, if someone isn't capable of thinking coherently for the few milliseconds that it takes to make the public/private choice for their reply, their input is hardly likely to be missed. It is unfortunate that some lists actually contribute to user confusion, while *trying* to make things simpler for users. But we're not going to do that here. > On this list Reply to All sends it To: the sender, and CC: the list. > That is also wrong, CC: is for your information and To: the original > sender implies I am expecting them to answer. No, that's quite right for a normal conversation. For example this message is To: you, and Cc: the list. And it's wrong to drop individuals from To/Cc when they might not be reading the list that you happened to reply to. You might be cutting them out of the discussion entirely. See http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html (which I just posted in my previous response which was quite correctly marked 'To: Nick'). -- dwmw2
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