On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chris Adams linux@cmadams.net wrote:
Once upon a time, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com said:
Well, *yes*. It's not business to be carried out on the list nor does the guy who moans about it seem to know why. And if you are the second from Gmail then please move it off-list as well. It's really not anyone's problem on this list what Gmail does.
No, it isn't just "what Gmail does." Yahoo and AOL are other major handlers that do the same/similar thing (and there are other not-as-major email handlers doing it too). As has happened many times in the past, the "rules" for email handling have changed. The biggest group of legitimate email handlers affected by this change is mailing list handlers; they need to adapt or get blocked/sidelined/etc.
Is it annoying? Yep. Is what these providers are doing a good idea? That's debatable. Is it here to stay? Most likely.
So in practice I think this really boils down to the common problem of ancient software shipped by RHEL and the bug-for-bug compatibility in CentOS with the list system eating its own dog food. That is, there is a fix for mailman, but not in the CentOS version. Sometimes stability is good, sometimes you need the updates.
There is still something of a philosophical issue in changing the apparent authorship (From: ) of the message...
Here's an interesting bug report filed 5/7/2014 by, ummm, James Byrne: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1095359 with the apparent resolution being that you need a support contract to discuss problems.