Subject: [codesprints] Avoiding inappropriate email responses

From: Russ Housley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:57:55 -0400

Many messages lead to inappropriate parties being on the response if a recipient uses the reply-all.

A reply-all to a Last Call message will include iesg-secretary and ietf-announce because they come from:

   From:<iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
   To:<ietf-announce at ietf.org>
   Reply-To:<ietf at ietf.org>

Depending on your mail software, some reply-all functions will put whatever is in the From into the To of the reply, and whatever is in the To and Cc into the Cc of the reply (despite the the Reply-To field).

So I have a suggestion. Could we make announcements:

   From:<iesg-no-reply at ietf.org>
   Sender:<iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
   To:<ietf-announce at ietf.org>
   Reply-To:<ietf at ietf.org>

Would at least eliminate the messages to the secretariat.

We would need to set things up so that <iesg-no-reply at ietf.org> does not deliver any message or cause bounce messages.

Russ