Mail-Followup-To in bug reports

Mail-Followup-To in bug reports

[Glenn Morris]

Please consider adding a Mail-Followup-To header in reports that come
from the bug tracker, as well as/instead of a Reply-To header.

In emacs mailing lists, the right thing to do has always been to hit
followup rather than reply. In bug-gnu-emacs, this is no longer right,
since one ends up with mail going to the submitter, the numbered bug
address, and the bug list. The last one is superfluous and results in
duplicate messages (perhaps these are being purged now, but even so).

I'm not going to be able to train my fingers to press a different key
according to which Emacs mailing list I'm in.

Thanks.

bug#430: Add MFT to bug reports

[Don Armstrong]

Package: emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Severity: wishlist


On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Please consider adding a Mail-Followup-To header in reports that come
> from the bug tracker, as well as/instead of a Reply-To header.
> 
> In emacs mailing lists, the right thing to do has always been to hit
> followup rather than reply. In bug-gnu-emacs, this is no longer right,
> since one ends up with mail going to the submitter, the numbered bug
> address, and the bug list. The last one is superfluous and results in
> duplicate messages (perhaps these are being purged now, but even so).
> 
> I'm not going to be able to train my fingers to press a different key
> according to which Emacs mailing list I'm in.

Hrm. I can make this change; the adding of bug-gnus-emacs@ to MFT is
probably a mailman specific setting that can be turned off too, and
then it will work properly.


Don Armstrong

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Add MFT to bug reports

[Don Armstrong]

Package: emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Severity: wishlist


On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Please consider adding a Mail-Followup-To header in reports that come
> from the bug tracker, as well as/instead of a Reply-To header.
> 
> In emacs mailing lists, the right thing to do has always been to hit
> followup rather than reply. In bug-gnu-emacs, this is no longer right,
> since one ends up with mail going to the submitter, the numbered bug
> address, and the bug list. The last one is superfluous and results in
> duplicate messages (perhaps these are being purged now, but even so).
> 
> I'm not going to be able to train my fingers to press a different key
> according to which Emacs mailing list I'm in.

Hrm. I can make this change; the adding of bug-gnus-emacs@ to MFT is
probably a mailman specific setting that can be turned off too, and
then it will work properly.


Don Armstrong

-- 
NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
won't rise again.
 -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327

http://www.donarmstrong.com              http://rzlab.ucr.edu

bug#430: marked as done (Add MFT to bug reports)

[Emacs bug Tracking System]

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and subject line Re: Bug#430
has caused the Emacs bug report #430,
regarding Add MFT to bug reports
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Add MFT to bug reports
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:08:49 -0700
Message-ID: <20080616190849.GO20708@rzlab.ucr.edu>

Package: emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Severity: wishlist


On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Please consider adding a Mail-Followup-To header in reports that come
> from the bug tracker, as well as/instead of a Reply-To header.
> 
> In emacs mailing lists, the right thing to do has always been to hit
> followup rather than reply. In bug-gnu-emacs, this is no longer right,
> since one ends up with mail going to the submitter, the numbered bug
> address, and the bug list. The last one is superfluous and results in
> duplicate messages (perhaps these are being purged now, but even so).
> 
> I'm not going to be able to train my fingers to press a different key
> according to which Emacs mailing list I'm in.

Hrm. I can make this change; the adding of bug-gnus-emacs@ to MFT is
probably a mailman specific setting that can be turned off too, and
then it will work properly.


Don Armstrong

-- 
NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
won't rise again.
 -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327

http://www.donarmstrong.com              http://rzlab.ucr.edu


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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 430-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug#430
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:13:19 -0500
Message-ID: <kcljh15v0g.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>


I've added Mail-Followup-To to the messages debbugs.gnu.org sends out.
Currently, it is in addition to the Reply-To header it was already
setting. Perhaps it should just replace it.