[Python-Dev] Someone should be shot

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:55:51AM -0800, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> [Barry on removing the reply-to header on python-checkins messages]
> > I'm more than happy to do this (I remember adding the reply-to munging
> > reluctantly).  Understand one thing: anybody who naively replies to
> > the whole list will send those replies to python-checkins, not
> > python-dev.

> Could you make the script generate mail-followup-to instead of
> reply-to?  I know its not a standard header but some MUA
> understand it and it is exactly what is needed to solve this
> problem.  I think promoting it is a good thing.

The script just calls '/bin/mail'. The Reply-To munging is done by Mailman,
which is slightly more than 'a script'. syncmail could do it, but that would
mean using sendmail instead of mail, and writing all headers itself.

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Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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