On 26/05/2015 10:07 AM, Brian May wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2015 at 09:25 N6151H <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
* The failure mode of “don't do anything with Reply-To†is that
 sometimes people send a message to an individual, that they
*intended*
 to go more public.
* The failure mode of “set Reply-To to the mailing list†is that
 sometimes people send a message publicly, that they
*intended* to be
 private to an individual.
Which failure is easier to recover?
The former is hardly any damage at all; recovery simply requires
sending
the message again to the correct address.
I agree 100% with this line of reasoning. In my situation there was no
harm done by my email, my manager fully supports me looking for new work.
I disagree 75%
I believe the only sensible approach to email - and most other internet
based communication channels - is to assume *nothing* is private. One
way or another, sooner or later, it will reveal itself.
In that circumstance, the concept of "harm" must be regarded as
self-inflicted.
So I vote for convenience for the majority trumping self-inflicted
"harm" for the minority.
That "convenience" is 100% normal for the younger generation. And it
seems there is more of them as each day passes!
It is not normal for the oldies who grew up with vanilla aliases serving
as mailing lists and therefore required a Reply-all to include the list.
We oldies just need to get over it.
I still use some alias-style "lists" hence my 75% disagreement. Bottom
line is that we should always engage brain before dropping the clutch.
Cheers
Mike
In another situation however if my management found out I was looking
for more work that could place my current position in serious jeopardy.
Or if I sent a response to an email saying "I don't like XYZ, he has
totally stuffed up package ZYX" and XYZ saw the message this could be
equally as damaging, with no possibility of correcting it.
Sure it is annoying to accidentally have a public message become
private, however it is easy to rectify. Also it is generally speaking
easy to filter out duplicate emails, if you don't like people CCing you.
At the very least, we should have information somewhere about posting
job advertisements to this list (I thought there was something already,
but can't find it), and recommend that all job advertisements have
Reply-To: preset - I believe mailman will see that Reply-To is already
set and not change it (do we need to double check this?).
Having said that, this is one mistake I personally am not likely to make
again in a hurry.
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