Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to" (was: Damiano's Lute)

Sun Dec 1 12:53:09 PST 2002

David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> writes:

> Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes:
>
>> 4. Has the Reply-To behavior of this list caused you confusion when
>>    posting to other mailing lists, perhaps even causing you to
>>    accidentally send a private e-mail instead of posting or vice
>>    versa?
>
> Heh.  You're trying to argue that reply-munging is now the default.
> That won't, of course, make it right.

I'm ambivalent about this question.  If I were God Emperor, there
would be no munging, and people who tried to inflict such blasphemies
(and crap like AOL's quoting style) on the world would be punished.

But given the current state of affairs, I think reply-munging is the
wrong choice for this list.  Sure, in general accidentally publically
sending a private reply is worse than the reverse, but I don't think
that is a particularly relevant risk analysis here.

It looks like that is the majority opinion (modulo the small,
self-selected sample), but I was definitely surprised that there were
so many people who liked it for this list.  I'll wait a few more days
before posting my tallies of the responses in case there are people
who were away for the weekend / holiday but would like to respond.

- tky