[I hope you don't mind that I redirect this to the list, I think I have a suggestion to improve mailman 2.1
On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:31:28PM -0700, Peter C. Norton wrote: > BTW, the reason that I set reply-to's on one of the lists I run is > that when a thread gets going and lots of people start responding, for > some reason the Cc: list grew as long as my arm. And I got really That's indeed a minor problem, but at least with the nodupes feature in mailman 2.1, you only get one copy. Now that I think of it, it wouldn't be too hard for mailman when it sends the list copy out to (optionally) remove from Cc all the Emails from members that have the nodupes option set. That way, the Cc would be left only with Emails that aren't subscribed to the list. What do you think? > Though many people know better, my experience even on a somewhat > technical list is that most people don't exercise any discipline in > discriminating who they reply to, and they assume that the list is > going to work with their mailer and dtrt. So I work with that > assumption. Unfortunately you aren't the only one. Am I so deluted to still want people to learn and know just a tiny little bit about their mail clients and use them properly? Note that I'm not just bitching, I did spend many hours writing a patch to do reply-to munging per receipient so that people who really aren't willing to learn and/or bitch too loudly can be given the option just for them and then they leave you in peace (announced here a few months ago, and an outdated copy is here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-March/018145.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail-21/mailman-developers/2002-March/011068.html http://marc.merlins.org/tmp/replyto.diff.cvs ) Unfortunately it never made the cut for mailman 2.1 Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
