Thanks Mathieu and Paul,
I began to prepare a formal answer to Mathieu, now I have to read 3 more
articles before formally answering :D
At least I have made my mind up
Jacques
Le 17/06/2019 à 04:00, Paul Foxworthy a écrit :
Hi all,
Please do not set reply-to.
I agree with Mathieu and Jacques, and the sentiment in
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html .
In a formal vote I would want to say -0.8: if absolutely everybody was in
favour, I could live with it, but it is still a bad idea. We are talking
about guarding against mistakes, either sending to the list when the intent
was to communicate with only one person, or the other way around. If
someone mistakenly sends to just one person, the damage is minimal - the
recipient may well notice and say "hey, did you intend this to go to the
list?". A personal message mistakenly sent to the list could be much more
embarrassing and damaging.
I administer another mailing list for a non-profit group and this issue has
cropped up. We added to the footer of the messages "Reply will send a
response to the sender. Please use Reply To All to send a response to the
list." That seemed to satisfy everyone.
I have no problem with additional headers that some email clients might
understand.
Cheers
Paul Foxworthy
On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 20:08, Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lir...@nereide.fr>
wrote:
Hello Jacques,
Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> writes:
Le 13/06/2019 à 15:19, Mathieu Lirzin a écrit :
Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> writes:
I don't agree, as an ASF member I reply to a lot of MLs. I don't want
to be bothered by that for all of them.
Deepak's answer with INFRA-18478 seems to be the way we should handle
that.
If you have a huge pile of ML subscriptions (50? 100?), you can
configure your email client incrementally each time you send an email to
a list that is not already configured and someday they will eventually
all be properly configured. \o/
Thanks.
I tried but could not find a way in a reasonable time
After doing some research I have found a documentation [1] which is not
directly about setting the ‘Reply-to’ header but the ‘Mail-Followup-To’
and ‘Mail-Reply-To’ headers which are workarounds for the “reply-to
munging” done by mailing-lists [2].
After configuring Thunderbird this way, people using Mail User Agents
(MUA) understanding those headers [3] will not have to remember to
remove you from the recipient list when responding to the list.
I haven't found any information regarding Gmail or other Webmail
clients, but hopefully they understand those headers too.
Thanks.
[1]
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Mail-Followup-To_and_Mail-Reply-To
[2] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html
[3] https://www.leptonite.org/mft/software.html
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