Happy New Year! On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > *Pre-amble* > Today, while responding to an posting in one of the mailing lists, I > experienced a failure by the mailer deamon of the ASF. > > In this case I tried to send an email to user@infra.a.o. > > *The issue* > The issue is that the ASF allows offices and project to use both user@ and > users@ as one of their mailing lists. And I suspect that this can cause > typos to happen to anyone not familiar with the ML specifics of each office > or project. > > One could say that the burden is on the sender to ensure that the email is > sent to the right mailing list, but > > would it not be advisable/preferable that the ASF ensures the best > contributor's experience possible by enabling wrongfully addressed > user@<whatever>.a.o. > mails get delivered to users@<whatever>.a.o. and wrongfully > users@<whatever>.a.o. > get delivered to user@<whatever>.a.o.? > > > It seems to me that this is easy to implement by INFRA (though I don't know > the intricacies of the mailer deamon implemented). > > What do you think? > > Best regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > OFBiz based solutions & services > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ >
