[ADMINISTRIVIA] New mailing list feature to force Reply-To
I've made good my threat and implemented a new feature exclusively for the cygwin mailing list. If you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the mailing list software should set the reply-to to the same value as your from address whenever you send email to the cygwin mailing list. I've also added an X-IsSubscribed field to the header of any message that comes from an address that is recognized as being subscribed. You can use this to determine whether to cc someone or just send email to the list. All of this is pretty experimental. I'll be monitoring the mailing lists closely to make sure that I haven't screwed anything up. FYI, cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] New mailing list feature to force Reply-To
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made good my threat and implemented a new feature exclusively for the cygwin mailing list. [snip] I've also added an X-IsSubscribed field to the header of any message that comes from an address that is recognized as being subscribed. You can use this to determine whether to cc someone or just send email to the list. Great, thanks! Will it also be set for cygwin-allow subscribers? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] New mailing list feature to force Reply-To
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:11:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made good my threat and implemented a new feature exclusively for the cygwin mailing list. If you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the mailing list software should set the reply-to to the same value as your from address whenever you send email to the cygwin mailing list. I've also added an X-IsSubscribed field to the header of any message that comes from an address that is recognized as being subscribed. You can use this to determine whether to cc someone or just send email to the list. All of this is pretty experimental. I'll be monitoring the mailing lists closely to make sure that I haven't screwed anything up. Oh well. I obviously screwed up. The spam is coming in and the subscribe option doesn't work. I sent the email above prematurely. Hang on. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] New mailing list feature to force Reply-To
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:25:31PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:11:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I've made good my threat and implemented a new feature exclusively for the cygwin mailing list. If you send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then the mailing list software should set the reply-to to the same value as your from address whenever you send email to the cygwin mailing list. I've also added an X-IsSubscribed field to the header of any message that comes from an address that is recognized as being subscribed. You can use this to determine whether to cc someone or just send email to the list. All of this is pretty experimental. I'll be monitoring the mailing lists closely to make sure that I haven't screwed anything up. Oh well. I obviously screwed up. The spam is coming in and the subscribe option doesn't work. I sent the email above prematurely. Hang on. Ok. New plan. I had to actually set this up as a mini-mailing list to allow ezmlm to handle the replyto subscribe requests. The new mailing list name is cygwin-replyto. If you send email to cygwin-replyto-subscribe-*ATSIGN*-cygwin-PERIOD-com you will go through the standard subscribe process. The mailing list manager will ask you for confirmation, you will send email back and then you will be subscribed to the cygwin-replyto list. Some of the responses you get may be a little confusing since this is not really a real mailing list and you can't send email to it (although, hmm, a mailing list named cygwin-replyto which always added the reply-to is an interesting idea). You can also, as always send email to cygwin-replyto-subscribe-you=yourdomain.com*ATSIGN*-cygwin-PERIOD-com to subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once you're subscribed the mailing list manager (actually my mailing list manager, all singing, all dancing, spam blocker, etc.) will add a Reply-To to any message that [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends to the list. I'm taking my life in my hands right now by sending this email without my usual explicit reply-to set just to test that this works. I apologize for the flood of spam that accompanied my aborted effort to get this working the first time. I made the mistake of checking to see if my new method worked without verifying that the spam blocking also still worked. I'm sure that all of the users of the sources.redhat.com lists are very happy with the increased spam they received. If this email makes it to the list without a reply-to, I will continue to tweak things. Please don't take that as an indication that I want to enter into a personal dialog about cygwin or reply-tos. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: [ADMINISTRIVIA] New mailing list feature to force Reply-To
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:10:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: If this email makes it to the list without a reply-to, I will continue to tweak things. Please don't take that as an indication that I want to enter into a personal dialog about cygwin or reply-tos. X-IsSubscribed: yes And, of course, it didn't have a Reply-To set. It did have the above header set, so I guess that's a small victory. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
