On 17 June 2013 17:35, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:39:56 +0000 (UTC) > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> I don't want _any_ copies from from Mailman. I don't subscribe to >> whatever mailing list you're talking about. I'm reading this via an >> NNTP server. Keep replies in the group or on the list. > > And that is part of the problem. I have always argued that gatewaying > the mailing list to newgroups is wrong. If this was only a mailing > list there are many things we could do to reduce abuse but because of > the gateway they can't be done.
There is a very simple solution used by many mailing lists which is to set the Reply-To header to point back to the mailing list. That way any old email client on any OS/computer/phone/website etc. has the required button to reply to the list without CCing anyone. It also reduces the chance of accidentally replying off-list. Anyone who wants to reply off-list or to deliberately CC someone (as I did here) can still do so but it will rarely happen accidentally. Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
