[ale] ALE reply-to changes needed??

[Joe]

Ray Knight <audilvr at speakeasy.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 22:50, Joe wrote:
> > Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Joe wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Geoffrey (or Chris F), what list management software is used
> > > > for ALE at the moment? I'll give it a look and see how hard
> > > > it would be to add such a facility.
> > > 
> > > It is mailman, but I think you're unlikely to find such functionality,
> > > as I've done a cursory check.  Please let me know if you do.
> > 
> > Well, I didn't really expect to. I expect to have to add it to the
> > code (mailman is in Python, yay!), and thereby ensure my place in
> > open-source history: the man who reduced bandwith devoted to Reply-to
> > munging by 99% :-)
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- Joe Knapka
> 
> Hooray!!! Finally a proposed constructive solution.  I've seen this same
> issue dissolve into a flame-fest on multiple mailing lists.  I have just
> learned to live with however the list is configured, but I'd love to be
> able to set it up so it works for my definition of correct.

After looking at the mailman code, it's actually not very easy to
make this happen in a "nice" way. I think it can be done by having
two lists, "ale at ale.org" and "ale-no-reply-to at ale.org". Each
subscriber would subscribe to the list that does what she prefers,
reply-to wise, and the traffic on each list would be mirrored
to the other. I think this will require some minor changes to
mailman, but it may possibly "just work". I'm going to experiment
with it this week.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka
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