From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8416 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2005 02:44:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 8404 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Nov 2005 02:44:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from c-24-61-23-223.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (24.61.23.223) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:44:57 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 919C113C0FD; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:44:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:44:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Message-ID: <20051119024455.GA6482@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20051117044801.GA4705@nevyn.them.org> <20051117231020.GJ1635@adacore.com> <200511180956.14917.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00417.txt.bz2 On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Is there a technological solution to this problem? Something that could >> tell if a person were NOT subscribed to the list and send the mail directly? > >I don't know of any technological solution, except to configure the >list server to filter addresses in order to prevent multiple messages. >Most mailing lists don't do that, and FWIW I'm used to have double >messages, they don't annoy me. That's why I cannot understand why >people bother to use Mail-Followup-To. IMHO it causes more trouble >than it's worth. Dunno if it helps but, coincidentally enough, I've transitioned this list to using a feature of the mailing list software which adds a "X-IsSubscribed: yes" to the header of a message if the sender was subscribed. This isn't foolproof since it just does a raw lookup of the senders email address in the subscriber database and could be fooled by extra "stuff" in an email address but if do you see the field, you can be sure that the person who sent the message is subscribed. cgf