Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> p.s. Can we get the list's reply-to: set to the list address? =)
NO! if you ask me. Every halfway modern mailreader knows how to
group-reply. Even the age-old 'mail' knows how to do this, in
fact, it uses the key 'R' to only reply to the writer and 'r' to
reply to all recipients. More modern mailreaders can even be
configured to write just to the mailing list address.
With Reply-To munging you win:
- people with inadequate or borken programs/mailreaders have an
easier time
- Mail that was meant to the list but sent to the author is sent
to the list (and needs no resending)
you loose:
- Any information in a previously set Reply-To, which just
might be needed to work. If the header is there, there is a
reason, no?
- The fallback behavior is to the list, not to the author.
Private mail might go to the list. This cannot be mended
by resending.
- People with working mailreaders get a harder time to reply to
the author only (from one more question to answer to having
to copy&paste the address by hand). That's almost like "We
do it in a way that it works with 'CrappyOS', if that breaks
on everyone elses OS, though luck" to me.
This has been pointed out with more detail at
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
-Wolfgang
PS: I consider using a WWW-browser as email or news reader a
bad choice, since smaller, faster and more able programs
are _usually_ aviable. OTOH some might value the consistent
interface or other features more. I am unwilling to accept
HTML-Mails or work around misfeatures (concerning mail/news)
in browsers, though, especially if the workarounds hinder me.
YMMV.
(No, that was not intended as a flame, it's just a strong
opinion aimed at noone particular.)
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