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

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 09 May 2005 15:50, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thursday 05 May 2005 17:13, Rich Felker wrote:
> > 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.
>
> if there are no sane objections i will change the config to do this
> note, a sane objection would for example be that the majority of thouse who
> have reply-to:<authors address> want to be CCed a copy on all replies

done

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Michael