Re: Mailing list changes

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 09:42:34AM +0100, smf wrote:
> On 28/03/2018 18:48, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >It says "author", and "suggests".  A mailing list is not the "author"
> >of an email.  And users should at all times have the freedom to decide
> >who to send mails to (so who to reply to as well).
> >
> Your argument is nonsencical when using a mailing list. You should not 
> have freedom to decide where the replies go to, replies should go to the 
> mailing list by default as that is who sent you the message.

_By default_.  Maybe, yes.  Some mailing lists are set up like that;
many are not.  But either way a subscriber should have the option to
reply to the author only, and Reply-To use by the ML software works
against that.

[ This is all ancient history, and something we have to work around;
  that does not mean it was not a mistake, quite the opposite. ]

[ OTOH, mail client programs that make working with this harder than
  it already was -- well guess what my opinion about those is. ]

> If you want to send an email to the individual then it is an unusual 
> action and should be different to Reply. It should be the account that 
> is subscribed to receive emails from the mailing list, so it makes most 
> sense to set the From be the Reply-To.

Depending on the mailing list it is the *usual* action, or 50-50, or
10%, or sometimes even 100%; but almost never 0%.


Segher