On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 10:06:40PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > I am thinking now after testing the reply-to-poster list > behavior that we should change it back to reply-to-list. The > primary reason I wanted to test reply-to-poster was because > it would reduce the amount of posts that reply only saying > "thanks".
People need to be aware who they are sending messages to before sending it. Plain and simple. This is true whether or not the Reply-To: header is being munged. > Unfortunately I completely fail to see any benefit beyond that > possiblity. It is far more annoying to use for many clients, > most Open Source mailing lists are reply-to-list, and the > expectation for people click "Reply to All" is completely > broken because that encourages cross-list posting. Not true. Most OSS mailing lists are "reply-to-sender". The endless Cc: list can be limited by using Bcc. > For these reasons I am thinking we should go back to > reply-to-list behavior. Unless there are suddenly a dozen > people posting in opposition during the next day, I am changing > teh behavior back on Wednesday. Sure. I have no objection to reverting the change. But let us decide on a policy and stick to it. -Vince
