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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Mailing list configuration changes? (was: test)
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 22:37:58 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cade6b-528-75ac-203-45c4bc44ad8f@pfeifer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210601194847.GE8179@redhat.com>

On Tue, 1 Jun 2021, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> We're experimenting with VERP for outgoing traffic from mailman.
>> The mails coming in since than have
>>  Sender: "Gcc-patches" <gcc-patches-bounces+gerald=pfeifer.com@gcc.gnu.org>
> Right.

Ah, makes sense.  I wasn't explicitly aware of VERP before, yet
looking at the header it is pretty obvious what this was about. ;-)

>> Is this a permanent change?
> Not sure.  It seems to make email more traceable and MAYBE a little
> faster to deliver to good receivers, so from that PoV it's nice.

So users need to be careful adjusting their filter rules, as not to
change now and then have to change back again?

>> If so, how do we inform users of this?  What do we recommend going 
>> forward?
> Hm, I added a brief blurb here, but it's not exactly a well known
> place.  I probably wouldn't want to spam every user with an update
> about it either tho.  What do you think we should do?
> 
> https://sourceware.org/sourceware-wiki/SystemStatusHistory/

Somewhat independent of the current experiment with VERP, I think it
would be great to advise users how to go about filtering e-mails (i.e.,
which headers to filter on and other potential considerations).

Could you send a brief heads-up to gcc@gcc.gnu.org hinting at some
improvements being tested and how to adjust/configure filters that
will work now _and_ in the future?

I volunteer myself to update our list related web page accordingly.

Thanks,
Gerald

      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-01 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01 13:34 test Frank Ch. Eigler
2021-06-01 19:36 ` Mailing list configuration changes? (was: test) Gerald Pfeifer
2021-06-01 19:48   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2021-06-01 20:37     ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]

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