Re: Mailing list changes

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:01:46 +0100 Message-ID: <5fd399af-a89c-d92c-b5c9-c5c414a38d9e@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 03/13/2018 01:58 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> silverdr@wfmh.org.pl 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.

  Gerrit