Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, February 18, 2018 22:17:49 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2/18/2018 6:52 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 18, 2018 18:26:25 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> >> It's your mail client that is doing it. Not the NNTP software.
> >
> > As I pointed out in another post, mailman currently puts both the
> > poster's e-mail address and the mailing list's e-mail address in the
> > "Reply-To" field (whereas it it used to just put the mailing list's
> > e-mail address in there), which means that at least some e-mail clients
> > end up replying to both of those by default (and if I understand the
> > "Reply-To" field correctly, they're technically supposed to reply to
> > both by default if they're both in that field). I don't know why it's
> > putting both in there, but it's been doing it for a few months now
> > since about the time that Brad said that he was making changes to the
> > server (maybe an upgrade? I don't remember right now). So presumably,
> > something he did resulted in a change in how mailman acts, and if Manu
> > is using gmail, then that would presumably affect him.
>
> But that's still the mail client, not the NNTP software.

It's a problem with how mailman is configured. Yes, the user can remove the
second e-mail address from "To" when replying, but that's easy to miss, and
as I understand it, the e-mail client is doing the correct thing when it
puts all of the addresses in the "Reply-To" header in "To" when responding.
Mailman shouldn't be putting two address in the "Reply-To" field if the
first place, and if didn't, then this wouldn't be a problem.

And no, that's not a problem with NNTP, but it's a problem with the
interface that many of us use to interact with the newsgroup, and it's not a
problem with the clients that we're running ourselves to read and send
e-mail to the mailing list.

- Jonathan M Davis