[Python-Dev] netiquette on py-dev (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Apr 25 16:32:31 CEST 2012

On Apr 25, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

Note that people who are really annoyed by the duplicates can set their Mailman accounts to no-dupes, and Mailman won't send the post to that person. (This has its disadvantages in principle -- no List-* headers and other list-specific info -- and in implementation -- at best Mailman can change all your lists at one site, so you need to do this on every site you subscribe to. But it's an option.)

Exactly. My MUA has a reply-to-list that really only works if there's a List-Post header. If you reply to one of my list messages and include me in the CC, I won't get the list copy so I won't get the List-Post header. Then my response back will include you in the CC. I generally won't clean these up, since it's your fault you're getting a dupe. :)

If you reply-to-list and don't CC me, then the copy I get will be the list copy, which will have a List-Post header, and I'll also reply-to-list. No dupes in sight, just like this one. SJT, FTW.

-Barry

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