Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jul 6 04:19:14 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 22:54 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> I don't think the downside of having the alias from the old list
> outweighs the benefits.  And, we may be able to mitigate the downside
> with some smarts on the lists.fedoraproject.org side as well.  It's
> just not been enough of a problem to warrant spending a lot of time to
> look at, for me anyway.

If one were to do some mail mangling to remove that, I'd also suggest
eliminating any followup-to headers that gmane inserts when it sends
replies back to this list.  For people unsubscribed to them (myself
included), whenever I hit reply on a message that came here through
them, the reply is preselected to be a usenet post to them, instead of a
reply to this list.  And the posting fails.

It's just bad form for them to subvert the list with their posting, and
they should remove it on the way out of their gateway.  Failing that, we
could remove it on the way in.

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