It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong. As somebody who once accidentally reply-alled criticism of my supervisor to my entire department at university, I'm not sure that it always is amusing, and so I'm in favour of changing the behaviour.
On 4 February 2015 at 15:26, Michael <spark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Accidental replies are the spice of life. > > The only downside of the reply-to header is the fact that people randomly > complain about it every other year or two, resulting in 20 arguments in > favour, 20 arguments against, then a discussion about how voting for or > against it might be a good idea, and in the majority of cases most people > going "meh, can't be bothered", and a minority deciding that voting is a > good idea, and then sometimes they remove it but most often they don't. > > On the upside, they poke a bit of life into things, resulting in the > original poster going "oh, why did I bother? They're just talking about > reply-to rather than our fussball table!" > > :-D > > > Michael. > > On 4 February 2015 at 14:16, Andy Robinson <a...@reportlab.com> wrote: > >> I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to >> make a change if a significant majority feel that way. >> >> However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the >> list alive ;-) >> >> On 4 February 2015 at 14:12, Sven Marnach <smarn...@google.com> wrote: >> > Maybe we could just get rid of the pointless "Reply-To" header? It can >> be >> > disabled by a list admin on the Mailman admin page. >> > >> > I get the impression that at least one person per month falls victim to >> it. >> > The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead >> of the >> > whole list, seems better than people accidentally sending private >> emails to >> > everyone. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Sven >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > python-uk mailing list >> > python-uk@python.org >> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Andy Robinson >> Managing Director >> ReportLab Europe Ltd. >> Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK >> Tel +44-20-8405-6420 >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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