-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
The purpose of the mailing lists is to discuss things _on the mailing lists_, so a default Reply-to header is *mandatory*.This header could be unwanted only on announce lists.Besides, this situation repeats on other lists, so I've mailed the mailman@xxxxx address, so the mailman admin will change the default setup for new lists and modify the setup of others.
This will not fix the problem, it will only shift the complaints to ones of "I meant to reply to so-and-so privately, but it went to the whole list. Please delete my credit card number from your archive (and every mirrored copy of my message all over the world)!"
In other words: you cannot win.The Mailman community well understands the arguments both for and against reply-to munging. Links were given to the seminal articles supporting both points of view. The Mailman project's official position is to strongly discourage reply-to munging but recognizes that some list administrators may still "want" to enable it, so it makes it an option, though not the default.
In my opinion, reply-to munging is almost never appropriate. The only hope you have is to teach users the difference between the Reply and Reply All buttons, and steer them toward mail readers that support these two mechanisms. Sadly, you have to just deal with duplicates or find a mail reader that supports Mail-Followup-To.
http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.htmlor use your Mailman settings to suppress the list copy of any message on which you are explicitly CC'd.
Cheers, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkfIU+cACgkQ2YZpQepbvXHVuACgu5cvD5ogTZQMvqaotIDOrmb1 3Z0AnAj45rkW9LmsxqUwEPzLGov5cgXU =gEos -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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