Re: Mailing list changes

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:59:43 +0100
Message-ID: <c9b7a061-7725-e5e4-7517-6a0c2b70b992@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 03/13/2018 02:40 PM, Peter Bortas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM,  <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2018-03-13, at 14:01, Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.4.0/releasenotes/
>>>>> and it's called "improvement"....
>>>> I can verify that going to Tools -> Alternatives -> Advanced -> Configuration editor and setting the variable mail.override_list_reply_to to false will fix this for cbm-hackers, likely also other mailing lists.
>>>> How other email clients are doing this, and what should be desired behavior is beyond me, but as Thunderbird recently introduced this change must mean practises are about to change.
>>>
>>> Probably started by some (web-)Client that got it wrong but got popular and lots of people are now used to it and expect it everywhere.
>>>
>>> At least that's how it happens way too often.
>>
>> Yeah... I can't imagine how on Mother Earth _ignoring_ a fully established functional header can be done by default and called improvement.
> 
> I can, and now I want this is my client. Reply-to munging on mailing
> lists is considered harmful. Ignoring the Reply-To header if the mail
> also has a list header sounds like the way of least harm.

What do you mean 'least harm'? I prefer that a mailing list behaves like 
a normal email. Meaning when I reply to it, the reply goes to where it 
came from, the sender of the mail, or if from a mailing list, the 
mailing list.

Very rarely I need a direct reply circumventing the list.

  Gerrit
Received on 2018-03-14 22:50:33

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