Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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According to Igor Peshansky on 4/18/2006 5:23 PM:
> The bottom line is: if you want to receive email on the list, set
> Reply-To: (like I do).  Otherwise most mailers will include your address
> in the To: field.  If the Reply-To: is set and the mailer *still* sends
> email directly to you, the mailer is broken.

Why can't ezmlm be more like mailman - all the lists on lists.gnu.org have
an option where you can choose to have the list skip mails to you if you
are also listed in the To: or CC:.  For example, in my bug-coreutils
subscription options page, I see

Avoid duplicate copies of messages?
When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list
message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list.
Select Yes to avoid receiving copies from the mailing list; select No to
receive copies.
If the list has member personalized messages enabled, and you elect to
receive copies, every copy will have a X-Mailman-Copy: yes header added to
it.

On the other hand, why can't mailman be more like ezmlm?  If you
accidentally delete a mailman message (or if it gets bounced for whatever
reason), you can never get it back; whereas mailman will let you request a
repost for a given message id.

Or why can't we just drop a hippo on the source code for both list
managers, and hope that the force merges them into a single coherent code
base, with the best from both worlds?

Then there is my earlier question[1] about Mail-Followup-To:, and a
complaint that Thunderbird 1.5 changed their default behavior - in
previous versions, Reply-All really did reply all when there is no
Reply-To:, but in 1.5, if Mail-Followup-To: is set, it overrides Reply-To:
and Reply-All becomes a stupid synonym for Reply:.  My experience is that
duplicate messages are most needed for people that are least likely to be
subscribed, since if the reply only goes to the list and they did not
subscribe, they don't see that I actually tried to help them.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-talk/2006-q1/msg00224.html

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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