Hi all, Thanks for the responses. I appreciate the argument about harm minimisation, and the position that 'best interests' rather than majority rule is appropriate in some circumstances. Those are both valid points.
Regardless of that, there is not a clear majority supporting changing the current settings. I personally don't believe that list settings really fulfil the goal of providing information security to emails. I think people are responsible for checking their own correspondence. This is a public forum, and its main purpose to provide a social forum for people to interact in. I agree that hitting 'reply all' is a common failure mode, but I would rather optimise for the common usage case. At this stage I don't plan to modify the current settings. Regards, -Tennessee On 26 May 2015 at 22:20, David Nugent <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 May 2015, at 4:32 am, Ben Finney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Tennessee Leeuwenburg <[email protected]> writes: > > > >> Six of one, half a dozen of the other. > > > > It really isn't, though. Setting “Reply-To” to the mailing list is > > significantly more harmful than leaving that field alone. > > > ^^ This. > > > > * 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. > > Adding: > > * Changing a Reply-To also overwrites the original author’s Reply-To, > which may be contrary to the purpose of setting it (admittedly doing so in > a “public” mailing list is kinda silly and you’d expect it would not work > as it should). Still, i’m old school enough to maintain the view that when > it comes to email headers, correctness is important - anything else quickly > leads to non-standard behaviour. Kinda like complaining after the horse has > bolted (20+ years on! :-)). Old, old argument in any case, and status quo > is probably a good idea. > > Good luck Brian, btw. Might be in the same position myself soon... > > Cheers, > /d > > _______________________________________________ > melbourne-pug mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug > -- -------------------------------------------------- Tennessee Leeuwenburg http://myownhat.blogspot.com/ "Don't believe everything you think"
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