[Community-Discuss] List reply-to address

[Owen DeLong]

> On May 30, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Mirriam <mirriamlauren at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Owen
> 
> Iam not suprised that you are defending someone who could not even first go to oroffesor Nii to apologize in person but choose to use the mailing list.

I am surprised that you are considering my email below to be a defense of anyone.

I am going to presume that you are, instead, replying to a different email in which I did NOT defend Andrew’s actions, but did state my opinion of Andrew’s character.

> A sigh that he does not even mean what he wrote herein. He respects no one.

We can agree to disagree.

> Andrew can continue his service to rhe community but far away from the Afrinic board which he has disgraced time after time.

It is my opinion that would be the board and the community’s loss. Again, we can agree to disagree.

Owen

> 
> Mirriam
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android>
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Owen DeLong
> <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> I strongly support Alan’s position. (Sent deliberately to the list using reply-all).
> 
> Owen
> 
> > On Sep 30, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net <mailto:alan.barrett at afrinic.net>> wrote:
> > 
> > On 30 Sep 2016, at 16:55, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> On 30 Sep 2016 13:25, "Alan Barrett" <alan.barrett at afrinic.net <mailto:alan.barrett at afrinic.net>> wrote:
> >>> and I have asked for the mailing list configuration to be changed so that it does not automatically add a “Reply-To” header in future.
> >> SO: I will suggest not to modify the list settings. Most of the time people hit reply and their mails goes as PM. I think it's absolutely fine for a community list like this to have a default response to the community. One can always do a formal withdrawal OR be mindful of who he/she is replying to before hitting the send button.
> > 
> > There is no good answer, but I seek to minimise the harm done by mistakes.
> > 
> > If the list does not add a reply-to address then there are two kind of mistakes, neither of them very serious:
> > 1. Things that were intended as list replies are accidentally sent as personal replies.  trivial problem; they can be re-sent.
> > 2. Things intended as list replies accidentally accumulate a long list of cc: addresses.  Minor problem; the people in the CC list get multiple copies of messages.
> > 
> > If the list does add a reply-to address, then there is one kind of very serous mistake:
> > 3. Things that were intended as personal replies accidentally get sent to the list.  This is potentially a huge problem, as confidential information can be made public.
> > 
> > Therefore, to minimise the harm done by mistakes, the list should not add a reply-to address to messages.
> > 
> > I realise that this is debatable, but that’s my position.
> > 
> > Alan Barrett
> > 
> > 
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