[U-Boot] cc-list modified?

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Mon Jan 21 19:19:44 CET 2013


On 01/20/2013 08:53:05 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 18.01.2013 17:32, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>> Am 18.01.2013 04:17, schrieb Scott Wood:
>>> On 01/17/2013 07:22:57 PM, Alexander Holler wrote:
>>>> Am 18.01.2013 01:50, schrieb Alexander Holler:
>>>> 
>>>> (...)
>>>>> Yes. Sounds nice at first, but there will be no end of features  
>>>>> people
>>>>> would want afterwards. Next will be video tutorials and fancy  
>>>>> sound. ;)
>>>> (...)
>>>> 
>>>> I've just wondered what happened to the cc-list of that mail I  
>>>> sent.
>>>> 
>>>> I've send it with
>>>> 
>>>> CC: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>,
>>>>  U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>,
>>>>  Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen at myspectrum.nl>
>>>> 
>>>> and received it just with
>>>> 
>>>> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot at lists.denx.de>,
>>>>     Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen at myspectrum.nl>
>>>> 
>>>> Looks like mailman is confused.
>>> 
>>> Yes, this is a very old known bug in mailman:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266161
>> 
>> Thanks for the pointer.
>> 
>> I've now disabled that "avoid duplicates" option as the bug suggests.
>> Good to know that such seems to be needed for mailman lists.
> 
> I've just checked my last post, and it happened again.

What do you mean by "it"?  Your address got dropped from CC, or Simon's?

> So disabling that knob (avoid duplicates) in the (my) preferences  
> doesn't help.

It's the preferences of the person who's being dropped from the CC list  
that matter (supposedly).

> Looking at those two mails, I think mailman just deletes every CC in  
> the list which is before the address of the mailing list itself.

I'm pretty sure I've seen droppage that wasn't consistent with that  
rule (e.g. the list was in To:).

-Scott


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