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Re: parsecvs repository moved...

From
Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date
Apr 16, 2007, 11:48 UTC
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<20070416114840.GA1562@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
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<46a038f90704160151q2121086bx1b224804d93ba481@mail.gmail.com>

The entirety of the subject is not worth further discussion. Beyond this email, let's get back to the point of this list guys: Git development! The keyword expansion flame-war is more on topic :-P

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 08:51:13PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
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>  On 4/16/07, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > No, it's correct in this case. I have it configured to collapse any
> > occurrence of my address into the list address, because I'm subscribed
> > to the list, and prefer to not receive duplicates.
>  OTOH you _are_ breaking the reply / reply-all convention that most
>  people use and (almost) all MUAs handle correctly.
I turned off Mutt's followup_to for this list now.

Simply put, MUAs have been getting it wrong for so long, that the entire thing is a minefield. The Procmail-Tips documentation (http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html#replyto_header) has perhaps one of the best summaries of it: ] The way to solve most reply problems is to encourage the responder to ] actually think about where the message needs to go, and make it easy for ] him to get the behavior he wants. It's the entirely of do what I mean, not what I say. Is my mail a reply or a followup? Is it brash enough that I should make sure it goes only to the right person?

>  If you'd rather not receive duplicates, you can probably filter out
>  for duplicates in by message-id at your MUA/procmail.

If it weren't for broken MUAs, then yes, this would solve it. The best implementations of this so far have been for uniques on the tuple of (From, Message-ID, Subject[prefixes removed], Fuzzy body).

> > Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
>  Oh, well. And I thought reply-to flamewars were exclusive to
>  debian-devel. They are silly enough there.

I'm not trying to start a flamewar, I get enough of those on gentoo-dev already ;-).

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  3. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2007
  4. Robin H. JohnsonApr 16, 2007
  5. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2007
  6. Robin H. JohnsonApr 16, 2007
  7. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2007
  8. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2007
  9. Robin H. JohnsonApr 16, 2007
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2007
  11. Martin LanghoffApr 16, 2007
  12. James CloosApr 16, 2007
  13. Petr BaudisApr 27, 2007

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