Tom Neff <tneff@bigfoot.com> writes:
Reality check: Most mailers today already theoretically give users some kind of option over where a reply goes. The problems arise because in the real world, users pay no attention to that stuff. They barely know how to hit Send.
So what in the world would delude us into thinking that if we introduced some kind of per-member Reply-To: option, these people would know or bother to use it? They'll never touch it! The only people who will change it are the people who are already savvy enough to direct their replies correctly without it.
Also, on lists of the COMET-ANNOUNCE-L variety, where the admin has specifically set a reply policy or reply address, it seems positively harmful to allow individual members to override it.
I do not see the usefulness of this per-member patch.
The usefulness of a subscriber reply-to option is that it should reduce the bandwidth devoted to reply-to munging dramatically. Rather than each "let's change reply-to" post turing into a several-hundred-post thread, as they always seem to, those threads would be squashed by a single reply: "If you don't like it the way it is, go to this URL and change it."
Cheers,
-- Joe Knapka