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Re: Bugs against emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com


From: Don Armstrong
Subject: Re: Bugs against emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:43:58 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> You don't know that.

Of course I know where the most ordinary form of a reply should go:
the bug, and the person sending the message.

> Only the person replying knows where that reply should go.

Enough people replying clearly have no clue where they should go;
hence this entire thread.
 
> Besides, I don't see why getting this result requires fiddling with
> the reply-to header. Can you give an example?

To: address@hidden
From: bar
Subj: Bug #1234: blah

Causes the following message to be sent to anyone who should get mail
involving bug 1234:

To: address@hidden
From: bar
Subj: Bug #1234: blah
Reply-To: address@hidden, bar

> ?? I don't understand. It does mean removing those addresses from
> pretty much all headers (not just To:), but I don't see why it
> should require replacing it with something bogus, or why it should
> be a big problem. Can you restate the problem?

It'd require changing To: in the above message to some address other
than the address the message was actually sent to, like address@hidden
Thus, a bogus value.

Debbugs is basically a huge wrapper around a mailing list per bug; the
issue we have now is that there are multiple aliases for the same
mailing list, and neither debbugs nor emacs-bugs does message-id
caching and /dev/null-ing, save on display of messages for debbugs.


Don Armstrong

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cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you
don't like this choice--don't gamble.
 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250

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