Re: [libreoffice-users] Reply settings on this list have changed

I quite like this idea of change as it now seems that less mistakes
should be made!

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, at 01:33 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 18:31 12/08/2012 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > this is to inform you that the reply settings on this list have 
> > changed (so-called "Reply to mangling" has been disabled).
>
> Well done!
>
> This new way fails safe.  A message intended to be public may get 
> sent privately by mistake - a minor inconvenience that can easily be 
> remedied by sending the message again correctly.  The old method 
> risked messages intended to be private being sent publicly - a 
> unfortunate consequence that simply cannot be undone.
>
> Interestingly, there's an argument that list processors have no 
> business inserting a Reply-To header, which is instead the sole 
> domain of the message's author.  RFC 2822 appears to require this: 
> 'When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) 
> to which the *author* of the message suggests that replies be sent" 
> (my emphasis).  The author of a message, of course, is not the list.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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