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The day-to-day front-end to the IETF database for people who work on IETF standards.
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Announcement Tool: form should start completely blank #7679

Closed rpcross closed 1 month ago

rpcross commented 1 month ago

Description

All fields of the message, including To: and From: should start blank so user has to set them explicitly

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rjsparks commented 1 month ago

Please provide more context? The pre-population was explicitly requested before - is this a request for a particular class of users of the announce tool or any user of the announce tool?

rpcross commented 1 month ago

There have been occurrences of users not changing the default fields and accidentally sending messages with wrong values. While the "To" field options are explicitly ordered and "IETF Announcement List" seems reasonable, the "From" options are sorted alphabetically and I would argue "IAB Chair" is not a good default.

rjsparks commented 1 month ago

So this seems specific to the secretariat use, where there's no obvious role based on their login to set the From.