Re: Mailing-list configuration
On Monday 13 June 2016 16:42:40 Nicolas George wrote:
> Mark Fletcher:
> > You know we are not talking about running a nuclear reactor here, right?
>
> What is your point?
>
> > But this only works if all participants agree to use such headers,
> > surely?
>
> No. The header I am referring to has been supported by all half-decent MUAs
> for years, possibly decades, and they work by default.
>
> > You'll never get the eclectic bunch that populate this list to do that.
> > Or does it need to be a feature of the machines hosting the list?
> >
> > I'm sure she read it the first time, but to the point above, this is
> > either something each individual has to co-operate with (not a chance) or
> > something one or more maintainers of the list server(s) need to be
> > convinced to work on (ditto).
>
> This something that can be set up either on the mailing-list manager (and I
> blame the administrators for the Debian mailing-list for not having done
> so) or individually by anyone for their own mails.
>
> This is the strength of my argument: all people who whine about unwanted
> CCs to them could instead take half a minute to set up their headers in
> order to avoid them entirely. Their choice.
So tell us how. You have not done so. You have said:
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Conforming to that attitude, I have documented my personal preferences in
the headers of the mails I send with the following Mutt rules:
send-hook . "unmy_hdr Reply-To:"
send-hook ~Cdebian-user@lists.debian.org my_hdr "Reply-To:
debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Those are Mutt rules. So are you saying that no-one should be reading this
mailing list with anything other than Mutt??
Let me rephrase this: what is wrong in my email headers that I could edit
(how?) to avoid all this spamming? I can see nothing in the headers to my
list mails, in spite of looking quite carefully, that suggests that anyone
should reply to me personally.
Lisi
>
> > Actually, this one pretty much is -
>
> No, it is not.
>
> > it bases its action (or lack) on the
> > existence of the standard mail list headers. Very few mail lists do not
> > have these headers (Yahoo lists are one exception).
>
> Unfortunately, as far as I know, and if I am wrong please correct me with a
> reference, the standardized mailing-lists headers do not contain the policy
> about CCing.
>
> > Yes, you did, you spammed me too on this response.
>
> Your mail did not contain a standardized directive not to do so. Neither
> does one I am replying to now.
>
> Mine do (and I have explained the procedure to achieve it), therefore I
> never receive unwanted CCs and I am perfectly happy about it. I guess some
> people like whining.
>
> Regards,
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