On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 06:40, Baishampayan Ghose <b.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> A mail client should have some way of specifying "reply to sender" or >>> "reply to reply-to address". >> >> Its not just the mail client's fault. If header munging in Mailman is >> set it wont help what the client settings are. So for your suggestion >> to work, this ML settings in Mailman for "Edit anonymous_list" and >> header munging "Edit first_strip_reply_to" settings should be set to >> NO and "reply_goes_to_list" must be set to go to the poster -- gmail's >> web interface now automatically recognizes this feature. Earlier it >> was not the case. > > > People wanting to reply to the OP (or anyone else) in private is < 10% > of the use-case. > > Such emails should either be composed separately or at least the > person sending the email > should verify that the mail is indeed going to the intended recipient. > > Let's not change the default setting to address a corner case.
Not asking for a change, just saying that blaming the mail client** is not a solution when it is the last point in the delivery chain. ** most linux clients are smart as is -- ॥ स्वक्ष ॥ http://svaksha.com ॥ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
