[CentOS] Not To James B. Byrne

[Karanbir Singh]

On 11/12/2014 07:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at 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.

can you file this at bugs.centos.org please

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