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.
The notion that a recipient's MUA should change its behavior according
to the whim of some other author was broken with Reply-To and it's
still broken with MFT. In all cases the user agent's goal is to serve
its user. To do that well it needs to provide _consistent_ behavior,
not behavior that changes from one message to the next.
Keith