[Ffmpeg-devel] reply-to headers and the mailinglist

Rich Felker dalias
Thu May 5 17:13:03 CEST 2005


On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:52:51PM +0200, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > quite a few messages which appear on the list contain reply-to headers to the 
> > poster+mailinglist, is this wanted? 
> >
> > currently the mailman settings are:
> > first_strip_reply_to: No
> > reply_goes_to_list: list
> >
> > i could change first_strip_reply_to to yes but that would remove not only 
> > reply-to headers which contain only the poster (and then get the list added 
> > by mailman) but also reply to headers which originally conatin the 
> > poster+list, at least if i understand things correctly
> >
> > the lists on SF dont have a first_strip_reply_to option ...
> > how are other lists configured? 
> 
> IMHO, the best is not to do any reply-to processing.  See
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html for a discussion on the
> topic.

This is nonsense...without it everyone would reply off-list and spam
us all. I vote for stripping all reply-to headers and then adding the
list as the only reply-to.

Rich





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