PAE - actually address question by now

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Nov 1 19:50:09 UTC 2010


Ed Greshko:
>> The fedora-list at redhat.com address has been depreciated and using it
>> will forward to the fedoraproject address.  Using the old redhat.com
>> address will lead to duplicate messages.

Bill Davidsen:
> Ed, it might be better to run down whatever adds that address to some posts than 
> to train all users to remove it when using the "reply" feature of their browser. 
> The last time this was discussed I checked a post in mt "sent" folder, and I 
> sent it to the correct address (and no other), but when I got it back it had 
> both old and new addresses in the Reply-To field.

Well, if someone writes to the old address, it gets forwarded to this
list with the following headers:

  Reply-To:  Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
  To:  Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>

Correctly stating where it went to, and where replies should go.  If,
while using Evolution, I press "reply," my response is addressed thus:

  To:  Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>

And mail works like it's supposed to (it goes to the right list, and
only the right list, as the list owners want it to work).

But, if I press "reply to all," I get this:

  To:  Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
  CC:  Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>

Which, ordinarily *might* be a useful thing, though often not (the
reply-to being a "reply there, *instead*," instruction), and definitely
not in this case.  I think it would be best if the redirection on the
old list was re-organised, so that it either:

a.  Sends back an error message, and the person has to manually repost
to the new list.  They will, quite quickly, drop doing anything with the
old list because all posts to it will error.  The old list was supposed
to stop being used long ago, that we should be proactively discouraging
laziness.

b.  Sends the message to the new list, with appropriately re-written
headers that do *not* include the old list address, in any way.

If you want to migrate people over, rather than maintain two lists, you
actually have to move people off the old list.  Which means doing
something like one of the above suggestions, and probably also deleting
all the memberships on the old list, and making it impossible to sign up
for it, again.

-- 
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