On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 15:13 +0100, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>
> I've seen it as well...
>
> I don't think that users do this in bad intent.
>
> It is perfectly legal to address a mailing list with Reply To set...
That's well understood. Reply-To is owned by the sending user. No
transfer agent or list manager or other service provider shall
muck around with it. Period.
That is what I referred to in my original rant. Being a receiver
and seeing the reply-to field pointing to the sender's private
address, I must (shall, can) assume that the sender has specified
that. Others have no business setting this field. That's where my
interpretation as an egoistic action originates (when this is
done in a public message, it's perfectly fine in private messages
as there are valid reasons to do that). And that's why I consider
it a disservice when a provider creates that condition for their
users.
> [ ... ]
>
> The SF mailinglist should be able to remove the "Reply To:" - and if
> configured so - add its own. It is not a requirement that the
> mailing list adds its own Reply To - but it is ofent seen that the
> mailinglist removes any existing Reply To and add their to prevent
> broken mailing clients (MUAs) from replying directly to the
> originating user...
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Maybe you should ask the SF-mailinglist-support-team how to remove
> Reply To sigrok-devel mailing-list...
No, please, NO! DON'T manipulate the Reply-To: header in the list
manager. Don't set it, don't remove it, don't "adjust" it. That
is as wrong. Granted it's popular, but only because it seems
easier to break the setup even more for everyone else, than to
teach a few unaware people how to do it right. That's so sad.
Makes things worse for everyone. :(
Consider this situation outside of computers. You walk into a
room and approach the people in there, and the person who rented
the room gets to decide whether the persons' conversation in that
room is private or public? What the? No, that's up to each
individual themselves, whom they talk to, and how they do it. As
well as how to respond to being approached. Has been, and should
remain so. Everything else is weird, and not an improvement.
virtually yours
Gerhard Sittig
--
If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above
ask your parents or an adult to help you.
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