[Aslml] "Reply-to" setting is wrong

[Rick Pikul]

At 09:35 AM 31/10/03, Bruce Probst wrote:
>Can we get the "reply-to" setting fixed, please, Mr Moderator sir?  It seems
>to be defaulting to "reply to list", not the "reply to sender" of the old
>ASLML.  As everyone knows, "reply to list" is an invitation to abuse and
>stupid errors, whereas "reply to sender" is the choice of sophisticates
>everywhere.

         Where are most responses going to go?

         That's right:  To the list.  Therefore the correct Reply-to
setting is to point at the list.  If the normal response was to mail
just the poster[0], then you would want a poster based Reply-to.


         Frankly, in the years I've been reading mailing lists, posts
intended for just the person being responded to erroneously going
to the list are very rare[1], and mostly harmless, (more so on a
moderated list)[2].


         [0] A trait typical of support lists, but not of discussion
lists.

         [1] Almost always involving either being up in the "oh my
god what are we doing up this latening," or the poster being a
newbie.

         [2] The typical one is a mail that is simply irrelevant to
anyone else, and most of the dangerous ones are quite obvious[3].

         [3] Mod:  Are you sure you wanted to post your home
address with an invitation to....


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