[Mailman-Developers] Why does Mailman delete post recipients fromCc: header?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:12 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
> >
> >I understand why it is removed from the recipient list - that's the
> >whole point - but does anyone know/remember why it is also removed
> >from the Cc: header? This seems unnecessary and inconsistent since it
> >isn't removed from To:, Resent-To: or Resent-Cc:.
> 
> I looked at the subversion (from cvs) log messages and found from Barry:
> 
>  process(): If a member has enabled their DontReceiveDuplicates option,
>  we'll also strip their addresses from CC headers in the list copy.
>  This helps keep the CC lines from growing astronomically.
> 
> I guess that answers the 'why'. Should we try to address the
> inconsistency?

We can, although I think in practice it doesn't come up often.  I have
seen long CC headers but usually the Resents, and even the To header
don't get insanely long.  But consistency would be good here I think!

-Barry

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