[U-Boot] cc-list modified?

[Alexander Holler]

Am 21.01.2013 19:19, schrieb Scott Wood:
> 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?

This time it was Steve Strobel. Simon was in to.

>
>> 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).

Ah, thats the (broken) logic. Mailman drops such people from every CC, 
not just from mails it sends directly to them. Not what I would have 
expected as it breaks cc-lists in threads totally.

>
>> 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:).

Regards,

Alexander