I quite like this idea of change as it now seems that less mistakes should be made!
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, at 01:33 AM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:31 12/08/2012 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have > >changed (so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled). > > Well done! > > This new way fails safe. A message intended to be public may get > sent privately by mistake - a minor inconvenience that can easily be > remedied by sending the message again correctly. The old method > risked messages intended to be private being sent publicly - a > unfortunate consequence that simply cannot be undone. > > Interestingly, there's an argument that list processors have no > business inserting a Reply-To header, which is instead the sole > domain of the message's author. RFC 2822 appears to require this: > 'When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) > to which the *author* of the message suggests that replies be sent" > (my emphasis). The author of a message, of course, is not the list. > > Brian Barker > > > -- > 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 > -- antiso...@myopera.com -- 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
