On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Felipe Contreras felipe.contreras@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see any component in bugzilla for mailing lists, so I'm posting here.
In order to do that I have to subscribe, which takes more than a few bounces, and that's the problem.
Public mailing lists should receive mail from *anybody*; if the poster is not subscribed, then the message should go through moderation. This is the truly open way.
Orthogonal to this is that the mailing lists should not mingle with "Reply-To"; they should leave the To and Cc fields intact, so that the MUA can reply to the right addresses. See: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
This way when a non-subscriber posts something, he doesn't have to add the "Please CC me as I'm not in the mailing list"; it will happen automatically.
I couldn't disagree more.
Posting to the list: If someone wants to benefit from a list, the least that he/she should do is subscribe. I delete systematically any email with "please cc me as I'm not subscribed to the list".
Replying to the list: I want the lust to "mangle" the headers so that I can hit "reply" and have the email go the list and not to the person to whom I am replying.