On 21/03/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:29:48PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote > >> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail >> >> "The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people >> involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list, in case >> any of them is not subscribed." > > How does one send email to *THIS* list, without being subscribed in > the first place? A bugzilla mailing list is a different matter. A web > form bug submission goes to a list, which the submitter is probably not > subscribed to. Developers do need to CC their replies to the original > submitter to let them know what's happening. But I'm not aware of any > such mechanism on this list. If someone is involved in a thread here, > then they've obviously subscribed here. So the CC: is redundant. > > Speaking of procmail+formail, I use them to tame the lists that follow > Chip Rosenthal's ideas. E.g., if this list did that, I would use... > > :0 fhw > * ^X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org > * !^Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org > | formail -i "Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists\.gentoo\.org (Gentoo users)" > > I do this to the few lists I run into that I want/need, which blindly > follow Chip's ideas. >
Chip Rosenthal? yeah, he's the "Reply-To munging considered harmful" fellow Trouble is, he argues from a theoretical position and ignores what people actually do with lists. There's two main uses: 1. a distribution mechanism to reach all subscribers and/or where you don;t have to be subscribed to post. For these you really don't want to munge Reply-To 2. A discussion forum. For these you do munge Reply-To: to be the list so all discussion happens on-list and is visible to all gentoo-user has always been the latter and all discussion always takes place on-list. If some doc somewhere says otherwise, change the doc to reflect reality. I utterly fail to see why so many folks on the internet can't see why there's two kinds of lists... I think I'm going to compose an essay; "Chip Rosenthal and his detractors all considered harmful" -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
