[Mailman-Developers] OpenPGP Mailman integration discussion [was: Re: GSoc - Requirement from Mentor to complete the project]

[Abhilash Raj]

On Friday 24 May 2013 11:24 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> I don't recall for sure but I don't think so.  I tend to think it's
> too much effort.  We do worry about routing cycles and handle that
> with X-Been-Seen fields.  Message-IDs themselves are not very useful;
> in my own experience repeated message IDs are invariably due to
> Post-and-Mail issues (which we deal with post-by-post by checking the
> NoDupes flag on any addressees who appear in the list).  Duplicate
> originals tend to be due to "keyboard bounce" (ie, for some reason the
> user resends within a number of seconds) or moderation delays -- in
> both cases usually they end up with different Message-IDs.

+1

> Also, Abhilash, I believe it would be very helpful to you later to
> blog about these conversations now.[1]  Your blog entries should not be
> fire-and-forget; you should have separate entries for different topics
> and go back and update entries as you learn more.  It might also be
> helpful to keep links to the mm-dev archive posts as references in
> your blog.  (I haven't actually practiced that last myself, but it
> seems plausible.)
> 
> It *will* seem like too much effort at first, but (1) people forget
> things unbelievably fast, and (2) you'll get better at it quickly.

Yes this was also one of my todos. And to be truthful point (1) is very
highly applicable to me ;-).

--
Abhilash