Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 16:21:21 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Subject: Re: current@ and freebsd-current@ Message-ID: <200512011621.24287.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051201202842.GP39831@over-yonder.net> References: <20051201095426.GD17378@uk.tiscali.com> <438F2BFD.9030408@mac.com> <20051201202842.GP39831@over-yonder.net>
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On Thursday 01 December 2005 03:28 pm, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:59:41AM -0500 I heard the voice of > > Chuck Swiger, and lo! it spake thus: > > I've asked postmaster@ about this, and there are mechanisms in place > > which are supposed to merge the two names to avoid duplicate > > postings, but some messages seem to get missed. > > Interestingly enough, there seems to be a pattern to it. All the > places where somebody starts duplicating happen when somebody (a) is > using KMail, and (b) replies to a message to 'current@' (never to > freebsd-current@), it will set the To: to freebsd-current@, and leave > current@ in the CC list. It doesn't happen every time those > conditions are met, especially if current@ is sandwiched somewhere > among other headers. Rather odd; maybe some "list reply" sort of > feature in KMail? jhb seems to get bitten by it with some regularity. Yes, KMail parses the List-XXX headers that mailman sticks in messages to figure out that when you reply to a list message it should use the list post address for To:. Unfortunately, there is now way to turn this "feature" off and when I submitted a bug report about it to KDE asking for the feature to be toggleable the KMail developers basically told me to piss off. Instead of a simple on/off toggle, they supposedly are going to add (though I haven't seen it yet) a know so that for any given mailing list you can configure alias addresses, but that type of thing doesn't scale well when you have 20+ mailing lists and have to duplicate it on N different machines. :( If only Mail.app would do actual trees of message threads. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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