Re: [sup-talk] mailinglists in CC

[Tero Tilus <tero@tilus.net>]

Israel Herraiz, 2010-08-19 14:58:
> It's really annoying to send a message to the list instead of to a
> single person by accident.
> 
> In any case, mailing lists can set a Reply-To header

Whoa!

Mailing lists _can_ do that, but they should not.  Ironically you
happend to mention one of the reasons why they should not.  :D

Let's consider the max damage done by modifying vs. not modifying
reply-to: If the header is unmangled the user may in certain
sircumstances accidentally send private mail instead of list mail.
That's an annoyance at most.  If the header is mangled by list server
the user may in certain sircumstances accidentally send list mail
instead of private mail.  That may cost the user a lot of goodwill,
money or her job.  Ergo, list setting reply-to header violates the
principle of least damage.

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