On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
Indeed. It's a small scale version of mailbombing.
This is an old debate. The problem is that opensuse.org doesn't set reply-to: to that of the list. Since the post author is set to From:, regardless of whether I click Reply or Reply-All, the author will be in To: And it's untenable to expect people to manually delete the post author from To: The universally accepted solution to this long standing problem is an email client that deletes duplicates automatically. Some lists do this to incentivize private conversations rather than list conversations, in such a case it's a reasonable configuration. But if the idea is to have list discussions, the list needs to use Reply-to:. Meanwhile some users assert the right to set separate From: and Reply-to: addresses, which again is simply untenable with listservers and itself becomes a misconfiguration. Pick one email address that you want to use for lists and use that as From: So as a courtesy I manually deleted Anton's email from this response. But it's not possible to selectively do this in the future, I'm not in the habit of doing so, I will not ever be in the habit of doing so, my email client discards duplicates - all the necessary information indicating it's a duplicate is in the header of both copies so the client can do this if it chooses, or not. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org