[Python-Dev] Someone should be shot
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@digicool.com
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:27:02 -0500
>>>>> "MZ" == Moshe Zadka <moshez@zadka.site.co.il> writes:
MZ> I'm sorry! I meant to reply to tim alone, and ended up
MZ> spamming python-dev! Of course, the real culprit is the
MZ> person who fixed up the reply-to in the checkin messages to
MZ> point to python-dev. Why was it done, and isn't there a better
MZ> way? This makes it painful to personally comment on people's
MZ> checkin messages. I suggest instead to add a mail-followup-to
MZ> header
MZ> (Didn't anyone read "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful"?)
Or how about
http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml
for a dissenting view. Of course Mail-Followup-To is completely
non-standard, but even if it were, having the mailing list munge it in
isn't recommended:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html
Bottom line (IMHO), this is just something about email that is and
will forever remain broken. Given that, it was voted a long while
back to make Reply-To for checkins point to python-dev so until
there's a hue and cry to change it back, I'll leave it as is. And
yeah, it bites me sometimes too!
-Barry