[liberationtech] list reply-all

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Here is a very personal example, in which I learned a valuable general lesson about talking shit:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001175.html

which had a side effect of cementing one of my professional mantras: What would David Wagner do? ::)

I can certainly take the time to be better about spurious reply-all sends.

best, Joe

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Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Senior Staff Technologist
Center for Democracy & Technology
https://www.cdt.org/

On Mar 19, 2013, at 21:22, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 19:08 -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
>> Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by
>> default been broached?
> 
> Reply-to-list poses a significant usability risk that can escalate into
> a security issue, so it's unfortunate that it's being used here of all
> places.
> 
> Let me relate a personal example from several years ago:
> 
> A: <operational discussion on activist group list>
> B: Right on! ps: how's <extremely embarassing private matter> going?
> B: Oh SH*#&$#*T, I'm SOOOOO sorry, I didn't mean to reply-all!! I feel
> horrible!!
> 
> It's quite easy to imagine <extremely embarassing private matter> being
> replaced by <career-ending aside> on most lists, but on this one in
> particular it might be replaced by <potentially life-endangering datum>.
> 
> Now compare this to the typical fall-out that happens without reply-to:
> 
> A: <operational discussion on activist group list>
> B: <public reply accidentally sent privately>
> B: Oops, sent that privately, sorry for the duplicate.
> 
> How many such minor inconveniences equal one job lost or life
> endangered? In my opinion, no list should use reply-to-list.
> 
> -- 
> Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
> 
> 
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