[Zlib-devel] Confusion between Zlib-devel at madler.net, Zlib-devel at zlib.net

[Mark Adler]

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 06:28 PM, Cosmin Truta wrote:
> I suggest that, if someone sends a message to Zlib-devel at madler.net or
> to Zlib-devel at zlib.net, the message should appear to the recipients as
> coming from the same place. Otherwise, people hitting the "Reply" 
> button
> will send the same reply twice; this is why we had duplicates in the
> last replies coming from Gilles.

Mailman seems to be ignoring what I told it for the Reply-To header, 
and putting in madler.net instead.  My only option here is to remove 
the Reply-To munging completely.  This has the effect of requiring 
responders to use "reply all" *and* to delete the address of the 
original sender in order to have the desired effect of replying to the 
list.  So there may be errors where only the sender is replied to, or 
when both the list and the sender are replied to so the sender gets it 
twice.  This could also has some good effects, like retaining the 
original Reply-To from the sender, which is sometimes the address the 
sender prefers over the From address.

So I have removed the Reply-To munging.  Please keep an eye out for 
direct replies that don't go to the list, and ask the sender if they 
meant to sent it to the list.  If you mean to only reply to the sender, 
then mentioning that will avoid this interchange.  Also since you'll 
have to use reply all, don't forget to remove the sender's address so 
they don't get it twice.

> My other suggestion is about the fairly long name "zlib compression
> library development discussions".

I have changed it to zlib developers.

mark