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D. Wokan wrote: |
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> Stuart Longland wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> Sorry for the noise... but a number of people have started sending to |
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>> ${LIST}@gentoo.org, CCing to ${LIST}@lists.gentoo.org -- resulting in |
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>> duplicate emails being sent to this end. |
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>> If possible, can people kindly pick one, or the other -- and not |
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>> both? |
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> The problem is in the lack of standardization between mailing lists. |
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> I've gotten used to just hitting reply-all instead of just reply because |
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> a number of lists I'm on don't set the reply-to header like the Gentoo |
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> lists do. The first time I saw the too addresses in my recipients, I |
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> thought maybe one was some kind of backup list system, but then I saw my |
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> reply double-posted. |
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Agreed. Most do set the List-ID header -- looking at your email headers |
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here -- I see the following... |
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> List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@g.o> |
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> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@g.o> |
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> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@g.o> |
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> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> |
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...and some email clients (KMail comes to mind) are even able to |
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directly use this information. Some for instance provide Unsubscribe |
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and Reply-To-Post buttons. Unfortunately Thunderbird (the mail client I |
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use most of the time) doesn't have these features. |
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(I'm tempted to do some maildrop/xfilter/perl magic to emulate these |
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features though) |
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> I'll try to keep an eye on what's going on in each list that I reply to, |
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> but I don't think this is really going to be solved until someone |
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> hammers an RFC on it down the Internet's throat. (But even that may not |
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> be enough. After all, Outlook Express never did use dash, dash, space |
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> to start a signature.) |
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Knowing Microsoft... they'll probably implement the bits they like... |
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tack on their own extensions and completely ignore the rest of it. |
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(Embrace, Extend & Break) Which is unfortunate for its users. |
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However, so long as we don't completely break those clients (i.e. it's |
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still usable) then all should be fine. |
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| Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | |
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