[LLVMdev] mailing list reply-to change

David Greene dag at cray.com
Wed Aug 19 16:06:44 PDT 2009


On Wednesday 19 August 2009 17:59, Chris Lattner wrote:

> > Chris - Can you comment on list why you made this change?
>
> Sorry, sure.  The basic problem it solves is that many people read the
> commits list (in particular) only infrequently.  They post frequently
> due to commits, and having them in the CC line makes them notice it
> faster.  I was manually cc'ing the person I was responding to on a ton
> of emails.  I consider this to be silly and took mailman's advice of
> not forcing the reply-to line.

I agree this is helpful for the commits list.  For the dev list, I'm
not so sure.  It's kinda annoying to have to delete messages twice.

                                -Dave



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