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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: stripping out the DO NOT REPLY from bugzie emails
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:33:21
Message-Id: pan.2007.09.29.14.11.53@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] stripping out the DO NOT REPLY from bugzie emails by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> posted
2 20070929100139.GB14360@g.o, excerpted below, on Sat, 29 Sep 2007
3 12:01:39 +0200:
4
5 > On 29-09-2007 02:29:21 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
6 >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Thilo Bangert wrote:
7 >> > Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> said:
8 >> > > It seems that not everybody loves the new "DO NOT REPLY TO THIS
9 >> > > EMAIL" header at the top of every bugzie email as much as robbat2
10 >> > > does.
11 >> > 1. if everybody hates it (full ack btw), why not remove it globally?
12 >> Not everybody hates it, and it's there to dissuade users from replying
13 >> to Bugzilla mail by hitting reply in the MUA.
14 >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181172
15 >
16 > Isn't that tackled suffiently now by setting a bogus reply-to header?
17
18 The problem is those replies may contain information of use in fixing the
19 bug. If the mail gets null-spaced...
20
21 Better to warn upfront that a reply via mail isn't going to have the
22 intended results, AND bogus reply-to header it.
23
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