[Catalog-sig] Google Groups Mirror

[Richard Jones]

On 24 June 2011 02:41, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, June 23, 2011 9:49:21 AM UTC+3, Richard Jones wrote:
>> On 23 June 2011 09:14, anatoly techtonik <tech... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You can reply only to catalog-sig and the mail will reach groups.
>> > Replying
>> > to both doesn't do any harm.
>>
>> I'd like to discourage posting through the google group please.
>
> I didn't know any of the following info, so if you can help to setup this
> correctly - it will be appreciated.

Sorry, I can't help.


>> Messages from the "pypi" group appear to come from that group, so
>> replying to them sends the message to that group. Which most (all, at
>> the moment) aren't subscribed to, so it bounces. So you have to
>> manually modify the "to" header when replying.
>
> Are you sure about that?
> From http://mail.python.org/pipermail/catalog-sig/2011-June/003795.html I
> see only my own address. Can you send me the email with all headers?

The From: header is your adddress. The reply-to is the google group.
The only mention catalog-sig gets is a bunch of List-* headers and an
X-BeenThere.


>> And one of the catalog-sig moderators has to approve each message
>> unless you're subscribed to the list. Which (speaking as one of thetwo
>> moderators) if you're going to be posting often, is a little rude.
>
> I didn't know this. It is not said that the list is moderated at
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig so I assumed it is free
> for all. BTW, the group address is subscribed to the list, so the messages
> should not end in moderation queue if they are coming from the group's
> address as you mentioned in the previous paragraph.

No, since the From: header is your personal address.


     Richard