Re: Mailing list changes

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 02:59:43PM +0100, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> >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.

And when you do, and your mail client silently replies to the list instead
of just to the author as you intended, well that can be *very* embarrassing
(and harmful in other ways).

a) Use a better mail client;
b) Configure it well;
c) Hope the mailing lists you use don't try "creative" things.

All these problems are caused by MUAs and MLMs doing non-standard (and
wrong) things, in a futile attempt to work around other MUAs and MLMs
doing wrong things.


Segher