[A6] Why is this list setup to reply to sender rather than the list?

[Will Yardley]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:10:43PM -0800, sayersafe-andromeda at yahoo.com wrote:

> It is so hard to get used to.... :(

This is a debate older than time. And it's been hashed out on this list
before as well[1].

The short reason is... because Justin and I both agreed that's how it
should be setup, and because we are both grumpy bastards. I'm not going
to spend a lot of time arguing about it, but I'm also not likely to be
really flexible about it.... we can have a vote if people really care.

Bottom line is... it's not so hard to resend a message, but it's hard to
"unsend" a message sent to the whole list by accident. You can always
switch to mutt, which has a great "list-reply" feature, which allows you
to reply to the list /only/ with a different keystroke. It also has a
feature to ignore lists that do set an explicit reply-to header.

The classic arguments against reply-to munging are laid out at:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

[1] http://mailman.code404.com/pipermail/a6/2003-August/001757.html