On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:52:17PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > [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?
That would definetly limit the # of Cc:'s on a message. Its an interesting approach, though perhaps too subtle. I think it would be appropriate to also have an option that just stripped Cc's. > > 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? Marc, I noticed that I got 2 of these messages in my inbox. Even though you know I'm subscribed to mailman-developers, you sent me a copy. This is the thing that I use reply-to forcing to prevent. I suspect you did this on purpose, so I'd like to hear whave you had in mind when you sent this. > 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 outdated copy is here: 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 I know how you feel. I'm going to have to apply my patch to automaticly reject messages from addresses that aren't subscribed to 2.0.x. I wish I could have written it before 2.0 came out. On the positive side I know a lot more about python now, and maybe I can update my patch to use withlist to make old lists behave the right way, and to remove the stuff I put in for 2.x where x > 0. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman-21/listinfo/mailman-developers
