[HacktionLab] Reply to to person, rather than list

[Carl van Tonder]

Mike (and others),

To de-lurk, I'm Carl; an Oxford-based activist, hacker and general nerdy
person. Reading your message made me sit ever-so-slightly bolt upright:
why are "Reply To:" headers being munged in the first place? A quick
Scroogle for "reply to munging" turns up the three canonical documents
on the issue, the most recent being 〝“Reply-To” Munging Still
Considered Harmful. Really.〞[0], which explains that munging Reply To:
headers is a violation of the 2001 RFC 2822, in addition to all the
existing problems. Sorry for the rant ;)

Tl;dr I agree with Mike's idea. Also, hi! Also, see you at (parts) of
the Oxford meet-up!

Cheers,

Carl

[0] http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 10:35 +0000, Mike Harris wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> At the moment this list works that all replies go back to the list
> rather than the person that did the post.  This can tend to create
> flurries of spam, like yesterday when I got the dates wrong.
> 
> Propose we move to the more standard way that a reply goes to the poster
> and if you want to reply to the list as well, you have to hit Reply All
> (or Reply to List) instead.
> 
> If there's no objections to this proposal, I might just go ahead and do
> it....
> 
> Mike.
>