In <20040924131148(_dot_)4768ffd5(_dot_)moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu>
Keith Moore <moore(_at_)cs(_dot_)utk(_dot_)edu> writes:
If some member of the list hit his "Reply-to-List" button (expecting it to
go to the list) it would go to the author plus the secretary, because the
author's clearly expressed intent was that it should not go to the list.
NO. if the recipient said "reply to list" the reply goes to the list.
if the recipient's MUA wants to point out that the author requested that
replies not go to the list, and give the recipient a chance to change
his mind about where the reply should go, that's fine.
Not so. The intention of MFT, as currently proposed (that might change),
is that "reply-to-list" goes, by default, to whatever is in MFT. And the
intention is that MUAs should implement it that way. I.e. it will go there
_unless_ the recipient take the extra trouble of overriding that default
(most of them won't, but nobody is suggesting that they will not have the
opportunity).
It is absolutely unacceptable for _anyone_ (the author of an original
message, or a list, or the recipient's MUA) to override the recipient's
preference about where a reply goes.
Nobody has suggested that.
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