Hello, On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:07 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> writes: > > > I don't know, but there are plenty of reasons to choose from. See e.g. > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html > > A stronger, and simpler, case is made by > <URL:http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful/> which > notes that the newer IETF standards make it much clearer that the > Reply-To field is specifically for the message sender to create.
No matter how you implement that technically, Here's what I am considering to be a sensible behavior. [Blindly ignoring any CoC, RFC and any other current practice. BTW I am not a mailing-list guru/expert/addict, just observing what people do, on Debian m-l] If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If I select "Reply": To=mailing-list CC= If I select "Reply to all": To=mailing-list CC=Previous email's recipient. If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. If I select "Reply": To=sender,mailing-list CC= If I select "Reply to all": To=sender,mailing-list CC=Previous email's recipient. => Do you agree with this? Can we forward it to list-masters? There are a few more things I am pretty sure: * Joe User should not be expected to know about mailing list, especially when he posts on debian-...@lists.debian.org and other user support mailing list (i.e asking to be CC'ed, not CC'ing people...). * Joe User should not be expected to know about "Reply to list" option. (Joe User only has 2 buttons: "reply" and "reply to all") * Expecting any user to _configure_ it's MUA to have the expected behavior is the wrong way to achieve the goal. * Expecting the user to edit headers (Reply-To or Follow-up-to...) isn't reasonable, because most end-user MUA (Thunderbird, Evolution, Outlook, Lotus Notes) don't allow doing it easily. note: If you use debian-www (and probably a few other lists like debian-boot) then you are in big trouble when you need to reply to an @debian.org user... knowing if that user is subscribed is pure guess|luck. Less is more, or to put it another way: <flame-sandbox> Yes, I am a big fan of Gnome: i.e. Let's have less "buttons" that actually do what people expect.</flame-sandbox> Regards, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org