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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:34:35 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions
Message-ID:  <20070219223435.GA2305@kobe.laptop>
In-Reply-To: <E537420B-0E19-4684-89A9-E72625E92C7C@goldmark.org>
References:  <45D9739B.5020906@yahoo.gr> <20070219105439.GA54495@kobe.laptop> <E537420B-0E19-4684-89A9-E72625E92C7C@goldmark.org>

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On 2007-02-19 10:27, Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@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.
>=20
> Thank you for that explanation.  It might be a good idea to add this =20
> to point 6 of section 8 of
>=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/ind=
ex.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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