[LCA2015-Chat] reply-to all on lists always was broken and still is broken, please revert

[Jethro Carr]

Just checking, did you mean to reply to just me or the whole list? ;-)

On 12 January 2015 9:28:10 pm NZDT, Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:45:02PM +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
>> > year.
>> > http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html
>> >  
>> > Can someone please revert this breakage?
>> 
>> One person’s breakage is another person’s feature.
>
>Yes, mostly preventing reply to author for some Email clients is a
>feature.
>
>(and not that it means anything, but I've been a mail and list admin,
>including sourceforge with 100K+ lists, so I have some experience with
>all sides of this, there and back, and got the tshirt)
>
>On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 09:08:27PM +1100, George Patterson wrote:
>> I'd be reluctant to change it this week but could be on the list for
>later
>> consideration.
>> 
>> In my opinion, those that do not sanity check the reply list before
>sending
>> an email is asking for trouble.
>
>I do, but if I use my cell phone, it's really a pain to have to
>manually
>override a reply-to I didn't ask for and doesn't belong.
>Besides, it's bad to randomly change the behaviour of clients from the
>server side. That is sure asking for trouble or at least creating
>confusion, at best.
>
>But yeah, you already knew that :)
>
>Marc

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