Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: the dangers of no reply-to munging

[Robert Collins]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:29, Miles Bader wrote:

> However,
> the failure mode here is benign -- at worst, duplicate copies get sent
> (if someone follows up to a copy of the message added by the MLM for a
> non-subscribed mailing list, but the recipient headers also included a
> subscribed mailing list).

It's not benign: if the recipient is on one list of two, and the sender
of the reply is one the other, and finally, the list the recipient is on
doesn't allow un-subscribed posters.. the recipient won't get the mail
they otherwise would have.

Rob
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