At 13:44 21/02/2013 -0600, Jonly Bonly wrote:
Because of the major foul-up of a couple of list members today by sending out the complete addresses of everyone in the 'To' field, ...
"Everyone"? You seem to think that the visible addresses had something to do with the membership of this mailing list. But no: there was no way that a subscriber could know addresses from the list. Those had to be just someone's personal list of correspondents. (But it was still a solecism, of course. His friends won't be happy!)
... it made me think to ask a question that might possibly help end or at least slow that kind of mistake down. Is there a way to make it so that when the compose window opens it's automatically made to 'Bcc' instead of 'To', unless the 'List' button is clicked?
You mean so that 99% of the time that you composed a message you would have to go through this hoop to get the address where it needed to be? (And you'd often confuse recipients by getting it wrong?) You'd be so used to making the change that you'd do it again on the hundredth time (an error of habituation) - and you wouldn't avoid the problem. What does your suggested "List" button do?
In any case, anything like this would have to be arranged in your local mail client, whatever that is - so that's not a question: it's a few hundred questions, since it will be different for each client. In practice, wouldn't everyone reject a client that did this and prefer something more user-friendly?
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