Apologies for mangling my description of the problem. The senders
with the hard-coded "Reply-To:" are not the ones complaining that
their emails aren't going to the list, it's those who thought they
replied to the list who complain that it went as a private message
back to the OP.
IMHO, all replies to a discussion list posting should go back to the
discussion by default. Any responder is free to change that for a
particular reply, but the default should be to maintain the discussion.
If a poster really wants private replies, the author is free to ask
for them, and may actually get a few. (Most will still go back to the
list because it's sooo much trouble to change the "To:" header.)
These are folks who constantly hijack threads because they always
start a new topic by hitting 'Reply' to whatever posting they just
received...
-Chip-
On 1/29/2018 12:14 PM, Chip Davis wrote:
I am loathe to weigh in on this architectural design discussion, but
it seems to ignore the PEBCAK effect.
I admin about a dozen _discussion_ Mailman lists as a mitzvah for
various organizations I'm fond of, none of which are well-populated
with computer scientists. Exhibit A is the number of subscribers who
have free email accounts at Yahoo, AOL, or bellsouth.net (who
subcontracts their email processing to Yahoo).
I have a constant problem with well-meaning, but essentially ignorant,
email users who, upon seeing a "Reply To:" field in their MUA's setup
screen, dutifully fill it in with their email address. Then they
complain that even though they "replied to the list", their email went
only to the poster.
That's why I have to "first_strip_reply_to", and it appears, will
still have to do so in your new paradigm, Stephen. You can't defeat
ignorance, only battle it to a bloody draw.
I've been doing this for years, and it seems that the proliferation of
POS (not "point-of-sale") cellphone email clients has made things
exponentially worse. They are more concerned with adding a button to
to automatically order whatever is in highlighted text from Amazon,
than with RFC's.
-Chip-
On 1/28/2018 11:43 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Jordan Brown writes:
> I want "Reply" to go to the author, and "Reply All" to go to the
author,
> the list, and any other To or CC destinations. I simply can't
> understand any other answer. I don't understand why anybody
feels a
> need for "Reply List".
Your preference is noted, but you are definitely in a minority of
those whose opinions I've seen over the decades. Even those who use
Reply and Reply All as you do (I do on this list, for example),
usually have considered it suboptimal. The preferences of list owners
also should be respected, to the extent that replying users don't
care. The prevalence of reply-to-munging says that they (or perhaps a
majority of their subscribers) want replies to automatically go to the
list.
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