Re: Bugs against emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> There's no way to know whether such a message is going to actually
> through, and it's still pretty hackish anyway. People really need to
> stay away from the "reply-to-all" crack.

I don't think that's right: "reply to all" should include NNN@bugs, but
not submit@bugs, not bug-gnu-emacs, not emacs-pretest-bug, not
bug-submit-list, ... so the problem is in the headers of the messages
sent by Debbugs which doesn't strip some of those addresses (tho it does
seem to strip submit@bugs properly).

If "reply-to-all" sends to addresses to which the reply should *never*
be sent, then the error is not in the use of rely-to-all, but in the
headers of the email to which the user is replying.

>> And #430 (which you said was doable) might help a bit.
> Yeah, someone else asked for it in debbugs proper; I can add it, it
> just didn't make much sense to me to change it since Reply-To: is
> already set that way. The right thing is for mailman to stop setting
> MFT; I don't know if that's a configurable setting or not.

Oh, right, some of the addresses get added after they leave Debbugs, so
it's arguably not Debbugs's fault in that case, indeed.
Maybe bug-gnu-emacs's Mailman can be configured not to add MFT, or else
maybe Debbugs can add its own MFT in the hope to preempt Mailman's (not
sure if that will work).


        Stefan