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

Marc MERLIN marc at merlins.org
Mon Jan 12 19:39:21 EST 2015


On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:32:05PM +1300, Andrew Lau wrote:
> unsubscribe

I hear if we get 50 more unsubscribes to the list, the reply-to will
get reverted, everyone will get a pony, and no one will get
unsubscribed.

Marc
 
> > On 12 Jan 2015, at 9:29 pm, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jethro Carr
> > www.jethrocarr.com
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> 

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