Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-dev-announce list

[Jim Ramsay]

Mike Doty wrote:
> Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > Mike Doty wrote:
> >> or you could ask infra to work it's magic making any post to
> >> -dev-announce post to -dev as well and set the replt-to address for
> >> -dev-announce to -dev.  that way it's all automagic.
> >
> > I hope you meant the List-Post header... unless we would like to
> > have another discussion on the merits/evils of reply-to munging :)
> >
> As an announce list, you're NEVER EVER supposed to reply to the list,
> so reply-to munging in this case is appropriate IMO.

Reply-To is supposed to let you reply to the author, in case they need
to use a different return address than what is in the From header.
Which I grant is very rare for Gentoo developers.

But I do agree with you that if reply-to munging is done it should
indeed point at -dev and never the -announce list.

-- 
Jim Ramsay
Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox,gkrellm)