On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:19:06AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: > Ever since the mailing list software was changed to say "sender via > Digitalmars-d," a number of the messages have been from "via > Digitalmars-d" - they're missing the actual sender. And for many of > them, the person who sent the message didn't bother to put a signature > on it, making it so that you can't tell who it's from. One example of > this is the "Enforced @nogc for dtors?" thread. Several of the > messages are missing the sender. However, if I look at > forum.dlang.org, there are names on those posts - e.g. the two posts > by Ola folsheim Grostad have his name on them in the forum, but his > name does not show up before "via Digitalmars-d" in the "From" field > in the e-mails. So, I'm guessing that he posted via the forum, and his > name got lost somehow when the message was translated into an e-mail > for the mailing list. > > I don't know if this is a problem with the mailing list software, the > forum software, or both, but it makes it hard to follow who's saying > what. It's bad enough that everyone's names now have "via > Digitalmars-d" tacked onto the end of them (since that definitely > makes the from field harder to read), but not even putting the senders > name in it makes the thread impossible to follow. > > So, I'd appreciate it if we could get this problem sorted out sometime > soon. Thanks. [...]
Not to add to the burden, but one thing that really irks me about this new "via Digitalmars-d" thing is that the original email addresses are no longer available (or are they?). This makes it hard to take an off-topic conversation into private mail. Is it possible to somehow include the original email address in the name, or perhaps add it in a custom header (maybe X-Original-Sender:)? T -- "No, John. I want formats that are actually useful, rather than over-featured megaliths that address all questions by piling on ridiculous internal links in forms which are hideously over-complex." -- Simon St. Laurent on xml-dev
