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

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:

> I did not know that you could "make" the email client state "Reply List" 
> instead of the text on the "Reply All" button.  I run Thunderbird 14.0.
>
> I have to get use to using the "Reply List" instead of "Reply" to post a 
> message to the thread.  It could be confusing to people, but does make it 
> easier to send a message to the poster, off list.  I use to copy the email 
> address of the poster and then paste it to my "To:" section.  This will be 
> easier to do that, but hopefully not too many people will forget to use the 
> "new" "Reply List" button instead of the "Reply" button.

myself, I am not so clear why people are interested in sending private 
email to people on a public list. I did it yesterday but only because 
I had trouble posting to the list and was overeager to get my word 
('hucksterism') in.

the default mode on a list of replying to the list made sense to me. 
not a big deal for me since I mostly lurk.

F.

> On 08/12/2012 09:53 PM, Anthony Easthope wrote:
> > 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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