[Users] reply-to-list annoyance

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 01:39:13 +0100,
Michael <codejodler at gmx.ch> wrote:

Michael>  Me too often run into this trouble.

Michael> I wonder if there's any valid intention, for senders, to reply
Michael> with private mail as TO: when answering to a list -- or is it
Michael> always rather a (little) mistake ? I have to admit i never
Michael> tried to mix up list with offlist recipients, so maybe lack
Michael> insight.

Michael> If it was a regular mistake, and there just no sane reason to
Michael> do it, then i wonder if that kind of mistake couldn't be
Michael> corrected just regularly, by the MUA, right before any such
Michael> mail gets delivered. Like setting TO to the list, automaticly,
Michael> and putting anybody else into CC, while dropping any CCs that
Michael> can be identified as on list too.

Michael> This sounds pretty much like what's gotten proposed already,
Michael> it's merely a change point of view - not only correcting weird
Michael> replies but avoid create such replies in the first place.

No, there really are valid reasons for private replies.  That is one
reason why the Reply-To header field exists.

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