Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-05-31 Thread Michelle Konzack
Sorry, for the late reply but found the message in the Spamfolder... Am 2009-04-29 10:35:08, schrieb Giacomo A. Catenazzi: But you fail also on pragmatic level: a lot of discussions are stopped because of lack of CC: Take debian-legal. How a non-subscriber can follow discussion? How he can

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-05-08 Thread Miles Bader
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: You're arguing that a Reply-To header is harmful (not that I am convinced) That field is very useful. What's harmful is mailing-list software munging that field, which is for the author to set and for nothing else to fiddle with. Yup. Reply-To

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-05-04 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Noah Slater may or may not have written... [snip; in reply to Brett Parker] Considering that we're discussing on a mailing list, it's reasonable to assume that the common case is replying to the list. Why optimise for, what is surely by definition, the uncommon case? Why *break*

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 15:12 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If I select Reply: To=mailing-list CC= If I select Reply to all: To=mailing-list CC=Previous email's

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 09:20 +1000, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:54:07PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If I select Reply: To=mailing-list CC= What if you are replying to a response to somebody who is

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: The whole m-l / CoC problem comes from the assumption that all MUAs have advanced features, that are properly configured, and end-user have good understanding of what to do. If we can't achieve a reasonable behavior using Joe User's two-buttons-MUA,

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 10:22:50, Brian May wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: How Mutt is able to detect all mailing lists? The fields in the headers only allow to detect the current mailing list. You can define what are mailing lists using the lists and

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-04-29 07:46 (+0200), Adeodato Simó wrote: + Frank Lin PIAT (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:07 +0200): If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. And how does one (or their MUA) know which of these is the

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Note that at the moment, my MUA (Evolution) has three buttons. None behave correctly for mailing lists: Reply = Reply to sender only Reply to all = reply to all previous sender and recipients Reply to list = Reply to list only, dropping non-subscribed

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Ben Finney wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Note that at the moment, my MUA (Evolution) has three buttons. None behave correctly for mailing lists: Reply = Reply to sender only Reply to all = reply to all previous sender and recipients Reply to list = Reply to list only, dropping

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Ben Finney
Giacomo A. Catenazzi c...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney wrote: If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read messages from that list, I don't think we can expect software to automatically figure out that they would nevertheless like to receive those messages. […]

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:11:42PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Personally, I'm fine with giving up on the no-cc policy. Just about every other technical mailing list that I read tends to accumulate cc's until someone gets around to removing them, and mostly people just deal with a bit of

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ben Finney may or may not have written... [snip] If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read messages from that list, I don't think we can expect software to automatically figure out that they would nevertheless like to receive those messages. We certainly

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:27:45, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Ben Finney may or may not have written... [snip] If someone writes a message to a list, but doesn't arrange to read messages from that list, I don't think we can expect software to automatically figure out that they would

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Andrei Popescu (Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:56:29 +0300): On Wed,29.Apr.09, 14:27:45, Darren Salt wrote: The list management software, OTOH, can [add] a Mail-Followup-To header, if one is not already present, containing the list address and, if the sender is not subscribed, his address. This

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 05:11:26 Russ Allbery wrote: Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: As far as I see it: * Debian has dropped the Reply-To header because it is harmful in some way. * Debian has mandated that all replies must behave as if Reply-To existed. If this

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du mardi 28 avril 2009, vers 05:27, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net disait : I tried hard, for many years, to love the Mail-Followup-To field, but I must agree that it doesn't serve the purpose well enough to recommend. (Briefly: it breaks when a

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
William Pitcock neno...@sacredspiral.co.uk writes: On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:05 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social or aided by technology), it will continue to happen. Reply-To:

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mike Hommey (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:46:35 +0200): On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-28 Thread Brett Parker
On 27 Apr 18:55, Noah Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: I fully agree with this. I think having to remember which key one must use in each context for reply is lame. This is why I do in my ~/.muttrc: [...] Where l/debian is the folder which

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brett Parker
On 28 Apr 03:58, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: Ben Finney a écrit : Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists, which as you can see, doesn't

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-28 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:46:01AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: *boggle* - you claim to be on multiple lists and yet you don't use server side filtering and folders?! OK - now that's just plain odd. Neither do I, does that make me odd too? By all means comment on how I or anyone elses uses lists,

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Brett Parker idu...@sommitrealweird.co.uk writes: On 27 Apr 18:55, Noah Slater wrote: Unfortunately, I don't use folders so I don't think this will work for me. *boggle* - you claim to be on multiple lists and yet you don't use server side filtering and folders?! OK - now that's just

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brett Parker
On 27 Apr 18:49, Noah Slater wrote: So, user error, not software error... This illustrates my point perfectly! It's not user error, because I'm just doing what I've learnt to do. Erm - how's that not user error? What you've learnt is obviously wrong. Relearn how to use your MUA

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:56:59AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Another problem on the flip side is that many people don't observe the please cc me requests on Debian mailing lists, and that way communication gets annoying. So in practical terms, it is safer to add more recipients to the

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:04:50AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Anyway, the first rule of internet: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others, so people should accept wrong CC:s without crying, and people should follow the CoC when sending mails. The

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:16:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 27 avril 2009 à 14:44 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : If you're annoyed by cc:s (well, Holger, I know you are, you told me about that more than once :-) ), configure your mailclient to set

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:04:50AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Anyway, the first rule of internet: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others, so people should accept wrong CC:s without crying, and people should follow the CoC when

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Ben Finney may or may not have written... [snip; M-F-T] RFC2822 (which define the semantics of ‘From’ and ‘Reply-To’) and RFC2369 (which defines the semantics of ‘List-Post’) are IETF-recommended standards; the other never achieved that. Given that it's seen some use and been

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Eisentraut pet...@debian.org writes: Considering that most mailing list software has an elimnatecc feature, this is never really a problem for people who don't want that sort of behavior. This feature is hideously broken for people (like myself) who split list mail into separate

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:25:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Peter Eisentraut pet...@debian.org writes: Considering that most mailing list software has an elimnatecc feature, this is never really a problem for people who don't want that sort of behavior. This feature

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-04-28, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:25:29AM -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Peter Eisentraut pet...@debian.org writes: Considering that most mailing list software has an elimnatecc feature, this is never really a problem for people who

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:12:22PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Brett Parker idu...@sommitrealweird.co.uk writes: On 27 Apr 18:55, Noah Slater wrote: Unfortunately, I don't use folders so I don't think this will work for me. *boggle* - you claim to be on multiple lists and yet you

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mike Hommey (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:52:36 +0200): Since I wouldn't dream of recommending anyone use a proprietary data silo like Google Mail, I invite you instead to look at the ‘sup’ package for a folder-less approach to organising email messages that many say is superior. Description:

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:52:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:12:22PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Folders aren't the only way to manage lots of messages sanely; ask any Google Mail user. Since I wouldn't dream of recommending anyone use a proprietary data silo

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
Mike Hommey a écrit : On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:12:22PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Brett Parker idu...@sommitrealweird.co.uk writes: On 27 Apr 18:55, Noah Slater wrote: Unfortunately, I don't use folders so I don't think this will work for me. *boggle* - you claim to be on multiple lists and

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:13:41PM -0400, James Vega wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:52:36PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:12:22PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Folders aren't the only way to manage lots of messages sanely; ask any Google Mail user. Since I

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 12:07 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: I don't know, but there are plenty of reasons to choose from. See e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html A stronger, and simpler, case is made by

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If I select Reply: To=mailing-list CC= If I select Reply to all: To=mailing-list CC=Previous email's recipient. If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:54:07PM +0200, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: If I select Reply: To=mailing-list CC= What if you are replying to a response to somebody who is not subscribed to the list? The emailer you are responding

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:34:11PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: personally I've more difficulty on handling usenet post on different computer: synchronize read post at home, office and offline laptop. Unfortunately, this has also put me off NNTP. I think this is a limitation in the

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: How Mutt is able to detect all mailing lists? The fields in the headers only allow to detect the current mailing list. You can define what are mailing lists using the lists and subcribe config options. -- Brian May

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Frank Lin PIAT (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:07 +0200): If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: [...] If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. [...] And how does one (or their MUA) know which of these is the case? -- - Are you sure we're good? -

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-28 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 07:46 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: + Frank Lin PIAT (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:54:07 +0200): If the sender of the previous email is subscribed to the list: [...] If the sender of the previous mail was NOT subscribed to the list. [...] And how does one (or their MUA)

ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social or aided by technology), it will continue to happen. regards,

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:05:37PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:39:15 +0100 Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org napsal(a): * The Debian lists are the only lists I have ever come across that mandate, or even care, about such a thing. I have been on many lists in my time, and my current list of mailing list

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social or aided by technology), it will continue to happen.

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 01:39:15PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, meaning that by default my email client wants to send replies to individual posters. To get the mailing list included in the reply means that I have to reply to all. It's a

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Dear lazylist, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, does someone know why? regards, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:03:10PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, does someone know why? http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: * The Debian lists are the only lists I have ever come across that mandate, or even care, about such a thing. I have been on many lists in my time, and my current list of mailing list subscriptions stands at 73. On

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes: On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, does someone know why? I don't know, but there are plenty of reasons to choose from. See e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Those

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 03:03:10PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, does someone know why?

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: Definitely not the only one which mandates this. Please list others so I can mock them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: * I don't know much about mailing list software, so I'm not going to be as bold as to suggest I know what the solution is. However, on all the other lists, I never get duplicate copies of email when people reply to me with an

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:33:06 + Clint Adams sch...@debian.org napsal(a): On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 02:48:36PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: Definitely not the only one which mandates this. Please list others so I can mock them. For example Mutt lists I mentioned. I saw the same rule in

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 27 avril 2009 à 14:44 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : If you're annoyed by cc:s (well, Holger, I know you are, you told me about that more than once :-) ), configure your mailclient to set Mail-Followup-To and hope for the next poster's mailclient to support that header. Which

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Noah Slater wrote: Either you avoid Reply-To because it is harmful and accept that you will get carbon copies from the commonly implemented group reply function of modern mail clients, or you include the harmful Reply-To header and avoid it. What am I missing? This seems too obviously

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:19:08PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Noah Slater wrote: Either you avoid Reply-To because it is harmful and accept that you will get carbon copies from the commonly implemented group reply function of modern mail clients, or you include the harmful

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Mail-Followup-To is: A. Useless junk without clear semantics B. Violating standards Which standards would that be? Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Brett Parker
On 27 Apr 15:41, Noah Slater wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:19:08PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: Noah Slater wrote: Either you avoid Reply-To because it is harmful and accept that you will get carbon copies from the commonly implemented group reply function of modern

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Noah Slater (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:10:17 +0100): Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists I fully agree with this. I think having to remember which key one must use in each context for reply

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:09:19PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: On 27 Apr 15:41, Noah Slater wrote: You're arguing that a Reply-To header is harmful (not that I am convinced) and Think of the occasions when you actually do want to do an offlist reply - it's not that uncommon - having

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:48:50PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: I fully agree with this. I think having to remember which key one must use in each context for reply is lame. This is why I do in my ~/.muttrc: [...] Where l/debian is the folder which contains Debian lists, and it allows to always

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:16:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: C. Only supported by a handful of clients A number of clients won't automatically generate the header, but may still support it for group replies. I think this might include Evolution and Thunderbid (although it was a while

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists, which as you can see, doesn't happen very often. No, the point of a ‘reply to list’ command is you *don't*

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org writes: Dear lazylist, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Noah Slater wrote: * The Debian lists do not have a Reply-To header, does someone know why? In brief: because that field is for the *sender* to set, if they want; and the mailing list software has

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: No, the point of a ‘reply to list’ command is you *don't* have to remember when to use it. Just use it every time you reply to any list, and it will DTRT because it uses the standard fields which are in just about every mailing list

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: You're arguing that a Reply-To header is harmful (not that I am convinced) That field is very useful. What's harmful is mailing-list software munging that field, which is for the author to set and for nothing else to fiddle with. -- \ “Saying

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: As far as I see it: * Debian has dropped the Reply-To header because it is harmful in some way. * Debian has mandated that all replies must behave as if Reply-To existed. If this were the case, this would be an easy solution. However, it's

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:11:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The primary problem with setting Reply-To is that it makes private replies extremely difficult (in clients that honor the RFC-defined meaning of the header field, at least) and significantly increases the chances that private

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Le lundi 27 avril 2009 à 14:44 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : If you're annoyed by cc:s (well, Holger, I know you are, you told me about that more than once :-) ), configure your mailclient to set Mail-Followup-To Mail-Followup-To is:

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: I don't know, but there are plenty of reasons to choose from. See e.g. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html A stronger, and simpler, case is made by URL:http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful/ which notes that the newer IETF standards

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Ben Finney a écrit : Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists, which as you can see, doesn't happen very often. No, the point of a ‘reply to

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 04:16:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 27 avril 2009 à 14:44 +0200, Michael Tautschnig a écrit : If you're annoyed by cc:s (well, Holger, I know you are, you told me about that more than once :-) ), configure your mailclient to set Mail-Followup-To and

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:35:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt Perfectly well defined. An interesting riposte for those arguing the opposite IETF angle. If adherence to standards is so important, surely it's a

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net writes: IIRC Thunderbird use to have a reply to list command, but I can't find it anymore :-(. The bug has been open since 2000, and has recently seen activity again URL:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45715. Meanwhile Debian's Thunderbird is

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: I am not saying anything like I will not obey the Code of Conduct because it is stupid but rather something like I will try my best, like I have been doing, but I know I will continue to fail. Well, “like you have been doing” means *not* using it, even

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: If this is such a concern, I would like to see the Code of Conduct updates to recommend that people concerned with follow up emails set the appropriate headers in their own clients. This was detailed earlier in this thread. The appropriate fields

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Is this so hard, people? We have large brains evolved in part precisely for the purpose of figuring out the protocols of communication and applying them moment to moment. If you don't want to decide in a given instance whether you want to respond

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Ben Finney
Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:35:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt Perfectly well defined. An interesting riposte for those arguing the opposite IETF angle.

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Brian May
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:10:14PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I tried hard, for many years, to love the Mail-Followup-To field, but I must agree that it doesn't serve the purpose well enough to recommend. (Briefly: it breaks when a discussion crosses between different mailing lists, and other

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:54:56PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Well, “like you have been doing” means *not* using it, even in this thread, so I find the above rather difficult to believe — especially because “I forgot” is even less plausible in the context of this thread where you've been

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Noah Slater
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:59:53PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: The appropriate fields *are* set: the mailing list sets the RFC 2369 fields for replies to the list, and the author sets the From and (optionally) the Reply-To fields for replies to the sender. The appropriate fields are set, I never

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff?

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:53:12AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Noah Slater nsla...@tumbolia.org writes: Yes, I know the L command, but thanks for pointing it out! My argument is that I have to remember to use when I am replying to the Debian lists, which as you can see, doesn't happen very

Re: ignoring the CoC in regards to cc:s (Re: Can we ship sources of a PDF file in the Debian diff? (was: Re: phyml_20081203-1_powerpc.changes REJECTED)

2009-04-27 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:05 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Montag, 27. April 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: Interestingly you did it again, ignoring the list Code of Conduct. As it sadly happens many times every day. And as long as there are no means to enforce it (either pure social