On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Kai Schaetzl <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>> Well, *yes*. It's not business to be carried out on the list nor does the
>> guy who moans about it seem to know why. And if you are the second from
>> Gmail then please move it off-list as well. It's really not anyone's
>> problem on this list what Gmail does.
>
> No, it isn't just "what Gmail does." Yahoo and AOL are other major
> handlers that do the same/similar thing (and there are other
> not-as-major email handlers doing it too). As has happened many times
> in the past, the "rules" for email handling have changed. The biggest
> group of legitimate email handlers affected by this change is mailing
> list handlers; they need to adapt or get blocked/sidelined/etc.
>
> Is it annoying? Yep. Is what these providers are doing a good idea?
> That's debatable. Is it here to stay? Most likely.
So in practice I think this really boils down to the common problem of
ancient software shipped by RHEL and the bug-for-bug compatibility in
CentOS with the list system eating its own dog food. That is, there
is a fix for mailman, but not in the CentOS version. Sometimes
stability is good, sometimes you need the updates.
There is still something of a philosophical issue in changing the
apparent authorship (From: ) of the message...
Here's an interesting bug report filed 5/7/2014 by, ummm, James Byrne:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095359
with the apparent resolution being that you need a support contract to
discuss problems.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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