Re: pgsql-patches considered harmful

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: pgsql-patches considered harmful
Date: 2006-07-11 15:33:38
Message-ID: 200607111533.k6BFXcv06169@momjian.us
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> Don't be surprised if there are objections - this is one of those things
> >> like emacs vs vi that stirs up religious debate.
> >>
> >
> > If we change Reply-To:, does it prevent replies to the original author?
> > If so, that seems like a problem, particularly if they are not
> > subscribed to the patches list.
> >
> >
>
> Depends on the MUA. See both sides of the debate here:
> http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/listreplyto.html . We use reply-to for
> the pgfoundry admins list, but that's a closed list. For open lists that
> often accept non-member posts it is much more of a problem, not least
> for the reason you suggest.

Let's add the author and the hackers list to the reply-to.

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