On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 16:48 -0400, Ben Cotton wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Máirín Duffy
<duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Would it be fair to request that the default action when hitting reply (not
> reply all) in an email client for this list be a private email rather than
> emailing the list? IIRC this is a per-list mailman setting.
I second the suggestion. It's easier to resend an email that should
have gone to-list than to unsend an email that should have remained
private. I wouldn't have guessed Máirín's original message was
intended to be private had she not said anything, but the next
accidental reply may not be as fit for public viewing.
Yes please. Fairly much *all* mail clients have two 'reply' options —
one to reply in public, and one to reply in private. Setting the
Reply-To: to go back to the list is a deliberate hijacking of the
user's decision, and it's redundant since if they *want* to reply to
everyone, they *have* a button for that.
FWIW we've fixed Evolution to warn you about this abuse, and give you
an option to *ignore* a Reply-To: header which points back to the list,
if you asked it for a private reply.
(cf. http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html )
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