Re: [exim] Extra copies of list mail (was Re: CVE-2019-10149…

thanks Russell,

On 25/06/2019 3:08 pm, Russell King via Exim-users wrote:
> For example, if you spend most of the week on Linux kernel related
> lists, it's mandatory to use reply-to-all unless you really want to
> reply to just the sender. Reply-to-list is strongly abhored.

One obvious reason for this is that in some contexts it's common to Cc
others who may not be on the list. Reply-to-list drops those,
fragmenting the conversation.

Many companies use this practice internally (perhaps more by accident
than design), so for that, as well as Linux dev work, I'm also ingrained
to reply-all.

Apologies from me too, to Jeremy and others I've annoyed here with
reply-all, but it /is/ hard to remember which policy to apply where.

Perhaps a note to that effect, "always reply-to-list" added to the Exim
list footer? Except of course, that might not be what /everyone/ here wants?

cheers,
calum.


> Then
> if you come to exim-users, you have to remember to use a different
> reply behaviour. If you hardly reply on exim-users, that's going to
> be very accident prone.
>
> So, I don't think this kind of jumping down people's throats and
> threatening to ignore people when they use the wrong reply button is
> acceptable behaviour. It could just be an accident caused by there
> being no automatic way for an email client to have the _right_
> behaviour for a particular list policy.
>
> All the time that list policy is reliant on the right reply button
> being pressed, mistakes will happen.
>