podcast listings missing a digit

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2014-10-01 at 13:26 +0100, Owen Smith wrote:
> Every other mailing list I am subscribed to causes Reply to go back to
> the list. The Reply-To: header is completely standard and it is not a
> horrible abuse to use it. The other alternative is for emails to be
> From: the list. I'm on various mailing lists, some insert Reply-To:
> and some change From:. This is the expected behaviour with mailing
> lists.

You are obviously subscribed to a different set of lists than I am :)

> We keep getting replies to individuals not the list, so clearly a
> number of people on the list have a problem with the way it behaves.

Perhaps so. But I have no sympathy. It really isn't hard to press the
right button; I'm not aware of *any* mailers which don't give you the
choice. And really, if someone isn't capable of thinking coherently for
the few milliseconds that it takes to make the public/private choice for
their reply, their input is hardly likely to be missed.

It is unfortunate that some lists actually contribute to user confusion,
while *trying* to make things simpler for users. But we're not going to
do that here.

> On this list Reply to All sends it To: the sender, and CC: the list.
> That is also wrong, CC: is for your information and To: the original
> sender implies I am expecting them to answer.

No, that's quite right for a normal conversation. For example this
message is To: you, and Cc: the list. And it's wrong to drop individuals
from To/Cc when they might not be reading the list that you happened to
reply to. You might be cutting them out of the discussion entirely. See
http://david.woodhou.se/reply-to-list.html (which I just posted in my
previous response which was quite correctly marked 'To: Nick').

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dwmw2
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