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

[Andrew Lau]

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> 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
> 
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