[Tagdb] Problem with the reply-to field

[Alexander "SquidLord" Williams]

On 2/1/06, Nitin Borwankar <nitin at borwankar.com> wrote:
>
> The Reply-All button is a simple painless solution.   Depending on what
> you want you can reply to sender (Reply) or all (Reply-All) so this is
> more flexible, no?


It violates one of the underlying principles of email list design back at
the beginning: it increases the amount of data being transmitted by at least
2x, and possibly up to much more, in situations such as this very post which
is going to two MLs as well as you directly. It also means you receive at least
two copies and possibly more, which is more than inconvenient, its bloody
annoying.

Most modern email clients have the ability to right-click or equivalent on
the sender address (which is always in the headers regardless of Reply-To
content), and send a reply straight there. The default method should definitely
not be to sender on a ML like this, where the focus is communicating with
the community, not a one-directional flow. That hasn't been the designed
case on MLs since the Endless September began.

--
Alexander Williams (thantos at gmail.com)
Proprietor of the Squid's Redoubt (http://chancel.org:8000/Redoubt)
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