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But surely the bikeshed should be blue!

Michael

On 4 February 2015 at 15:38, Peter Inglesby <peter.inglesby at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour
> are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong.  As somebody who once
> accidentally reply-alled criticism of my supervisor to my entire department
> at university, I'm not sure that it always is amusing, and so I'm in favour
> of changing the behaviour.
>
> On 4 February 2015 at 15:26, Michael <sparks.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Accidental replies are the spice of life.
>>
>> The only downside of the reply-to header is the fact that people randomly
>> complain about it every other year or two, resulting in 20 arguments in
>> favour, 20 arguments against, then a discussion about how voting for or
>> against it might be a good idea, and in the majority of cases most people
>> going "meh, can't be bothered", and a minority deciding that voting is a
>> good idea, and then sometimes they remove it but most often they don't.
>>
>> On the upside, they poke a bit of life into things, resulting in the
>> original poster going "oh, why did I bother? They're just talking about
>> reply-to rather than our fussball table!"
>>
>> :-D
>>
>>
>> Michael.
>>
>> On 4 February 2015 at 14:16, Andy Robinson <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm one of the list admins.  There are a couple of others.  Happy to
>>> make a change if a significant majority feel that way.
>>>
>>> However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the
>>> list alive ;-)
>>>
>>> On 4 February 2015 at 14:12, Sven Marnach <smarnach at google.com> wrote:
>>> > Maybe we could just get rid of the pointless "Reply-To" header?  It
>>> can be
>>> > disabled by a list admin on the Mailman admin page.
>>> >
>>> > I get the impression that at least one person per month falls victim
>>> to it.
>>> > The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead
>>> of the
>>> > whole list, seems better than people accidentally sending private
>>> emails to
>>> > everyone.
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> >     Sven
>>> >
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