Just testing; and find this may be the silliest way of setting a list I've seen.
If someone cannot take the minute time to check the 'to' 'cc' 'bcc' then the 'subject' line, then are they smart enough to operate a machine ;-) or to handle any secure documents ;-) Just curiously wondering - by the way, I assume you, Florian, will receive 2 copies of this; when you tire of receiving duplicate messages, maybe you'll return this list to resemble other lists ;-) On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: Hello, > > this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have changed > (so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled). > > So far, e-mails had set a reply-to the mailing list address. In other > words, with any e-mail client, replies to e-mails on the list were > automatically sent directly to the list. > > In the past, this lead to two major problems: > > 1. Several times, people have sent direct replies to the public list, > where deleting them is nearly impossible. I remember at least one case > where confidential information has been sent out that caused lots of > worries for the sender and his employer. This happened because people hit > "reply" and thought it would reply to the sender only. > > 2. I have heard complaints in the past from people, stating that working > with the non-developer lists of LibreOffice is a pain for them, because of > reply-to mangling, resulting in a lack of communication. This also led to > the fact that numerous tasks were done by the same people, who needed to > spend more and more time, instead of sharing the work burden with others. > While I do not fully believe this argument, there's just one way to find > out... > > Therefore, I have applied a change: > > Replies to e-mails from the list now only go to the original sender. You > either need to use the "reply to all" feature of your e-mail program, or - > preferably - the "reply to list"/"reply to group" feature, which will > direct replies directly to the list. > > This is common practice on most mailing lists, and even the default > setting for our mailing list software, so we did not re-invent the wheel > here. Those seeking for details should have a look at > http://www.unicom.com/pw/**reply-to-harmful.html<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html> > > I know we had numerous discussions on this topic in the past, but the > outcome was that roughly 50% were for this change, and 50% refused it, so I > am really sitting between two chairs here, for which I beg for your > understanding. On the one hand, those complaining the lists are unusable > with reply-to mangling, on the other hand, those complaining the lists are > unusable without reply-to mangling. Unfortunately, combining those two, > even on a per-recipient basis, is not possible, so they are mutually > exclusive to each other. > > In order to find out the real impact, I simply changed the setting, and > again, I beg for your understanding. > > Do not worry: The mailing lists are for the community, so it's the > community deciding how they should work. What I'd like to ask all of you is > to try out for a few days if that change is good for each list or not. > Should we find out it is more harmful than it helps, I will immediately > switch back to the old behaviour. > > Sorry for this short notice, and I beg for your understanding that I'm > somehow sitting between two chairs here. > > Florian > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted