[pmwiki-users] Mailling list Reply-To:

[Crisses]

On Oct 5, 2006, at 3:24 AM, Oliver Betz wrote:

> Im subscribed to several mailing lists, two let Reply-To: unchanged,
> 9 set it to the list, 2 set it to both (list and sender), one sets it
> to a fake address (!). I didn't ever read any offending mail sent to
> a list by accident.

There's great cures for this one.

A) Never send an offensive email -- to ANYONE.  Think Gandhi.  Why  
are you increasing the angst in the world, or in your personal life.   
Let it slide.  Believe it or not, this is Just A List.
B) This is a techy list, but you shouldn't be passing passwords  
around via email anyway.  Other than sending your password to the  
whole list when you were trying to send it to one person -- how often  
are we commenting something particularly private -- I can see off- 
topic or me-too posts going private -- but if it's that important you  
should be double checking who you send it to anyway.
C) I suppose some people on this list MIGHT know one another in real  
life, and know that the other person will never ever slip up and  
spill the beans, but the law of the land is never say anything to  
ANYONE if you don't want it repeated.  This starts to harken back to  
A.  Do you really know the person you're mouthing off to?  Or is it  
that you're passing around trade secrets you're looking to patent?   
Do you have an NDA with the recipient?

This is not a personals list.  It's not a porn-related list.  It's  
not a particularly personal-conversation-encouraging list.  I was on  
a polyamory list, and it make complete sense to make the reply-to  
private -- after all people were speaking about a very personal  
topic: how many lovers they had.

How many of us send private messages to each other saying "You show  
me your code, and I'll show you mine! *wink, wink*"  ??

99.9% of my emails go to the list, cc'ing the sender is optional.   
Beyond that it's a TOTAL PITA.  Just because it's become second  
nature doesn't mean that writing to PmWiki-Users and making mistakes  
hasn't cost me precious MINUTES of my life by now.  Add that up  
against a prolific list and how many others waste a few seconds per  
misdelivered email....

And I'm not changing email clients.  I've been very happy with this  
one even though I don't like that I can't override the reply-to.  Why  
is the listmail reply-to broken so everyone has to fix it?  Way back  
when everything was alt.sex.fuzzybunnyrabbits, it made sense to make  
stupid rules and edicts to train people into thinking about where  
their email was going.  I'm trained.  Now I want to regain minutes of  
my life.


Everyone else in my head doesn't care ;)



> Since there is at least one member afraid of sending private
> information to the list, I agree to let the Reply-To: untouched.

I'm still confused about what someone is sending emails in reply to  
this list that they're afraid of having become public.

"I hate you, your ideas, and your code sucks"
"Ohoh, that was a sexy function, let's meet Friday at my wiki, the  
password is 'secret'"
"by the way hon, don't forget to bring home eggs and milk"
"I'd code it this way...."
"Pinky, when we kidnap Patrick and steal his code, we can overthrow  
the wiki overlords, charge tons of money to host people's wiki  
websites, and rule the world!"  -- "Snarf!"

Honestly, I'm baffled ;)

Crisses
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