Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:47:54PM -0700, John W Baxter wrote: > At 0:56 -0400 10/20/2001, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >If multiple headers are not supported, then I submit that we should > >assume that a multi address Reply-to may well be a bug in the spec; > >other address headers may appear multip

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-20 Thread John W Baxter
At 22:15 -0700 10/19/2001, J C Lawrence wrote: >BTW: Have you checked Mutt's behaviour yet? Could/would someone >check Outlook's behaviour? Eudora 5.1 beta for Mac OS X (wherein I am at the moment) honors multiple address Reply-To: headers. It's highly likely that Eudora has done so from the be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-20 Thread John W Baxter
At 0:56 -0400 10/20/2001, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >If multiple headers are not supported, then I submit that we should >assume that a multi address Reply-to may well be a bug in the spec; >other address headers may appear multiple times, may they not? No more a bug than the legal multi-address Fro

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-20 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> I suspect the bullet lists I've been posting recently JCL> could/would do it if touched up a bit. Sure, I'll do it. Great! They should be augmented with the exact variable names and settings to accomplish the goal. Most lik

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 10/19/01 10:44 PM, "Barry A. Warsaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > their lists to behave. I guess I'm advocating a typical politician's > exit here (some might call it wimping out ;). If the RFCs allow for flexibility, I'm all for it. ___ Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:44:56 -0400 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are 6 choices: Yup. > What would also be useful, though is a set of guidelines that lay > out the issues and help a list admin decide which settings are > most appropriate for their list. Is anybody willing t

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
It seems to me that there are good arguments for a number of different Reply-To: policies, and that list administrators are going to have to make their own choice based on their membership and the way they want their lists to behave. I guess I'm advocating a typical politician's exit here (some

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 00:56:57 -0400 Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If multiple headers are not supported, then I submit that we > should assume that a multi address Reply-to may well be a bug in > the spec Nahh. Its quite clear, and further, it also makes sense. > other address he

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:30:30 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/01 8:50 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I agree, except that as a moderator who regularly moves threads >> about, having the abilty to coerce, or minimally force initiation >> of the thread

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:37:40PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > > VM/XEmacs does the right thing too, with both Reply-To: that > > contains multiple addresses, and multiple Reply-To: headers in the > > original message. > > If I'm reading it correctly, multiple Reply-To headers violates RFC > 282

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 10/19/01 8:50 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, except that as a moderator who regularly moves threads > about, having the abilty to coerce, or minimally force initiation of > the thread move as a Good and Useful Thing. Fair 'nuff. Stylistic differences, neither is righ

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:31:26 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/01 4:04 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By doing reply-to extension we're changing practice as follows: >> -- Posters can _add_ to a posts disposition list via Reply-To. >> -- Posters can

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 10/19/01 4:04 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > By doing reply-to extension we're changing practice as follows: > > -- Posters can _add_ to a posts disposition list via Reply-To. > -- Posters can attempt to move threads to a different forum. Which, IMHO, should be done via

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:05:41 -0400 (EDT) bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chuq, I totally agree. I had to "solve" a problem on one of my > lists that ended up being a fairly prolific poster had his > "Reply-to" set to his own address. The list was set so that > replies went to the list, but a

Re: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread bob
Chuq, I totally agree. I had to "solve" a problem on one of my lists that ended up being a fairly prolific poster had his "Reply-to" set to his own address. The list was set so that replies went to the list, but any reply to his messages on the list did not, due to his "reply-to" being set. I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:32:44 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/01 3:21 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Note: This does expose an abuse vector: >> >> I don't like Bubba. >> >> I send a troll to a busy list with Reply-To set to Bubba. > Aka the "set y

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
On 10/19/01 3:21 PM, "J C Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note: This does expose an abuse vector: > > I don't like Bubba. > > I send a troll to a busy list with Reply-To set to Bubba. Aka the "set your followup to /dev/null" on usenet hack. I'm of the opinion, and I don't expect to be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:44:29 -0400 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Field Min number Max number Notes reply-to 0 1 Thanks. > Are you suggesting that we collapse Reply-To: even if we don't add > one ourselves? No. I specifically think we should collapse duplicate list address

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> If I'm reading it correctly, multiple Reply-To headers JCL> violates RFC 2822. The fact that VM supports it is fine, but JCL> that doesn't mean Mailman should emit it. You're right of course, see section 3.6: Field

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:15:29 -0400 Barry A Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> Ergo, if a given list is configured to do reply-To munging and JCL> it receives a message with Reply-To set, then it makes sense to JCL> _ADD_ the list's ad

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JCL> Ergo, if a given list is configured to do reply-To munging JCL> and it receives a message with Reply-To set, then it makes JCL> sense to _ADD_ the list's address to the Reply-To: header if JCL> present, rather than repl

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:21:55 -0400 Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:48:29PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: >> BTW: Do Mutt et al correctly handle multi-address Reply-To? > Unknown. I'll have to try it. FWVLIW nmh/exmh do The Right Thing. Pine didn't seem to.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:48:29PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > > Assuming that mailers correctly handle such a Reply-to. > > True. If we insert the list address at the head of the reply-to > list then broken MUAs would seem unlikely to change their behaviour > (or so quick testing here with a c

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread J C Lawrence
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:39:10 -0400 Jay R Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:34:05PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: >> I've been reading RFC 2822 on the subject of Reply-To and noticed >> that the content of Reply-To is a list. ie you can have more >> than one address

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Reply-To: handling

2001-10-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:34:05PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > I've been reading RFC 2822 on the subject of Reply-To and noticed > that the content of Reply-To is a list. ie you can have more than > one address listed under a Reply-To: > > reply-to = "Reply-To:" address-list CRLF > address-