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From: Andrea Barisani <lcars@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 09:01:15
Message-Id: 20050414090119.GC6594@sole.infis.univ.trieste.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 10:54:35AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi all,
4 >
5 > It appears that recently the mailing list server has enabled reply to
6 > munging. From previous discussions (about 2 years ago) it was decided not
7 > to do this reply to munging. What I want to ask is do we want to
8 > reconsider this decision, or do we want the reply-to munging be disabled
9 > again?
10
11 The reply-to was set in almost all mailing lists with the old server. During
12 the migration I kept the Reply-To for all lists, I didn't notice that
13 gentoo-dev wasn't using it.
14
15 I agree that reply-to munging is a bad idea and I tried removing it from
16 gentoo-user receiving a lot of flames because of that, see also this bug for
17 something related about this topic:
18
19 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82887
20
21 I'm prefectly happy with removing our reply-to header (and leaving
22 user_defined one if any) if the userbase of this ml is happy to deal without
23 it.
24
25 Cheers
26
27
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] reply-to munging Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>