But surely the bikeshed should be blue! Michael
On 4 February 2015 at 15:38, Peter Inglesby <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour > are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong. As somebody who once > accidentally reply-alled criticism of my supervisor to my entire department > at university, I'm not sure that it always is amusing, and so I'm in favour > of changing the behaviour. > > On 4 February 2015 at 15:26, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Accidental replies are the spice of life. >> >> The only downside of the reply-to header is the fact that people randomly >> complain about it every other year or two, resulting in 20 arguments in >> favour, 20 arguments against, then a discussion about how voting for or >> against it might be a good idea, and in the majority of cases most people >> going "meh, can't be bothered", and a minority deciding that voting is a >> good idea, and then sometimes they remove it but most often they don't. >> >> On the upside, they poke a bit of life into things, resulting in the >> original poster going "oh, why did I bother? They're just talking about >> reply-to rather than our fussball table!" >> >> :-D >> >> >> Michael. >> >> On 4 February 2015 at 14:16, Andy Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to >>> make a change if a significant majority feel that way. >>> >>> However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the >>> list alive ;-) >>> >>> On 4 February 2015 at 14:12, Sven Marnach <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Maybe we could just get rid of the pointless "Reply-To" header? It >>> can be >>> > disabled by a list admin on the Mailman admin page. >>> > >>> > I get the impression that at least one person per month falls victim >>> to it. >>> > The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead >>> of the >>> > whole list, seems better than people accidentally sending private >>> emails to >>> > everyone. >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Sven >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > python-uk mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Andy Robinson >>> Managing Director >>> ReportLab Europe Ltd. >>> Thornton House, Thornton Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4NG, UK >>> Tel +44-20-8405-6420 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> python-uk mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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