[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

[rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert Krawitz)]

On Wed, 21 May 2014 14:06:33 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:30:43PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> > Lists setting or rewriting Reply-To headers punishes users of
>> > good, open source mail programs and rewards users of broken,
>> > proprietary mail programs like Outlook.
>
> On this, Richard and I agree.
>
>> OK.  So if the list has a policy that all replies should be directed
>> to the list rather than the author, what should the list do to
>> "encourage" members to honor that policy?
>>
>> (Don't simply say that it's a bad policy...  
>
> But it IS a bad policy.  It is not the place of the list or the list
> manager to decide that my tangential response to a poster I know, on
> an off-topic subject, and content which is not fit for "polite
> company" belongs on the list.  And it should not make it hard for me
> to provide such responses, or make it easy for such responses to
> accidentally end up posted to the list contrary to my expectations.

Here's the use case: a support mailing list for a FOSS project where
users post questions and issues.  All too often one of the developers
replies (copying the list) and the user simply replies to sender,
either because s/he prefers the discussion to be with one point person
or because the default "reply" is just to sender...but we want the
replies to all go to the list in addition to the sender, so that
others may chime in.
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Robert Krawitz                                     <rlk at alum.mit.edu>

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