[UPHPU] Mailing List Settings

[Steve Dibb]

Nothing against you Mac, but I'm going to counter-argue your claims:

> 1) Setting Reply-To for the mail list _destroys_ any existing Reply-To
> header that a person may have been using.

What kind of twit-moron sets their own Reply-to in the first place?  And 
how often does that happen on a mailing list?

> 2) The consequences of accidentally replying to the author only are not
> negative at all, other than you have to resend if you want to hit the
> whole list. However, the consequences of accidentally replying to everyone
> are obviously extremely negative in many ways. (And it gets publically
> archived forever, too!)

Mailman makes it pretty simple to delete posts.  Sure, everyone gets a 
copy but at least its not archived publically.

> Additionally, any mailer that is dumb enough not to let you choose
> reply/reply-all easily is probably dumb enough to not make it painfully
> clear that your reply will go to the world.

And anybody who replies to a mailing list with sensitive information and 
DOES NOT MAKE SURE they are not replying to the entire list is pretty dumb.

My argument is this -- most of the time people want to reply TO the 
list.  So have the default be that way.  Just cuz the author of the 
article a) uses a cool mailer that no ones heard of before that lets you 
reply to "group emails" with a hotkey, and b) he probably screwed up and 
  sent private information to some list doesn't mean we should suffer 
too. :)

Steve