Administrivia: Re: Swedish Certification Authority

[Adam Back]

Ian Goodyer <goodyer@well.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Please, if you wish to answer this request make sure you check that you
> send the message directly to Griffin and not to the whole list.  This will
> insure that we will not to clog up the list with off topic discussion. 

I have noticed over the past few months numerous messages going to the
list which were clearly intended to be private mail.  Followed often
by "oops, that was meant to be private!"

The reason for this is that the Reply-To: is set to the list address
by the list software.

I vote it gets changed to have no reply to.  On the lists I have been
on where there is a Reply-To: set to list address it has invariably
caused trouble, and embarrasment for inadvertent posters of private
email.

With no reply-to, the "reply to author only" function in most email
clients starts working as advertised once more.

Paul argued for reply-to on the basis that it stimulates discussion,
but I tend to dislike this configuration.

Adam