Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 19 22:45:30 UTC 2007


On 2007-02-19 10:27, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey at goldmark.org> wrote:
>[mailed and posted and cc'ed to grog]
>On Feb 19, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> There is a very good reason why it is customary in this mailing list
>> to copy the sender when replying.  We don't accept email messages
>> only from subscribers.  This means that some people may post a
>> question without even being subscribed to the list.  By Reply-To:
>> header "hacks", like the one you are describing, the original poster
>> may never see your reply.
> 
> Thank you for that explanation.  It might be a good idea to add this  
> to point 6 of section 8 of
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html

Noted.  I'll prepare a patch and post it to Greg Lehey for a review,
after eg. removing "you" and other stuff which doesn't fit with the rest
of the section.

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