From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: mailing list behaviour (was: Spurious newlines at beginning of startstop pair)
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:31:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191129123116.311d2b69@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3210F86B-1B07-4946-8698-5DD172AD4EC1@fiee.net>
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:10:46 +0100
Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
> The problem seems to be that traditional mailing lists like this just
> don’t work with modern security standards.
>
> I didn’t check how secure NTG’s mail server is configured, but
> changing subject and sender of every message is regarded harmful. Not
> doing that would mean that:
> * I can’t filter mails (visually or rule based) by subject any more.
Sorting can easily be done using other headers , e.g. “List-Id”.
> * A lot of replies would only go to the sender.
Very true.
> * The connection of threads would get lost.
Why? Threads are arranged by the “References” and “In-Reply-To”
headers which are not modified.
Marco
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2019-11-27 13:17 Spurious newlines at beginning of startstop pair Denis Maier
2019-11-27 16:25 ` Hans Hagen
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2019-11-28 22:26 ` Fwd: " denis.maier.lists
2019-11-29 9:38 ` Hans Hagen
2019-11-29 10:05 ` Denis Maier
2019-11-29 11:07 ` Hans Hagen
2019-11-29 11:10 ` mailing list behaviour (was: Spurious newlines at beginning of startstop pair) Henning Hraban Ramm
2019-11-29 11:31 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2019-11-29 12:02 ` mailing list behaviour Henning Hraban Ramm
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