Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations

[Walter Bright]

On 2/18/2018 11:02 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Sunday, February 18, 2018 22:17:49 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> 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.

Just to let you know, Thunderbird (what I use to post to NNTP) does not do that. 
Here's what the headers TB generates:

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Path: digitalmars.com!.POSTED.c-73-83-17-42.hsd1.wa.comcast.net!not-for-mail
From: Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
Newsgroups: digitalmars.D
Subject: Re: Annoyance with new integer promotion deprecations
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:17:49 -0800
Organization: Digital Mars
Message-ID: <p6dq6b$4qh$1 at digitalmars.com>
References: <20180205192225.GA30118 at quickfur.ath.cx>
  <mailman.3774.1519004362.9493.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
  <p6dckf$1t3u$1 at digitalmars.com>
  <mailman.3777.1519008737.9493.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 06:17:47 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: digitalmars.com; 
posting-host="c-73-83-17-42.hsd1.wa.comcast.net:73.83.17.42";
	logging-data="4945"; mail-complaints-to="usenet at digitalmars.com"
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
  Thunderbird/52.6.0
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3777.1519008737.9493.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
Content-Language: en-US
Xref: digitalmars.com digitalmars.D:311870
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Note that the [From:] email address shown is configurable in TB. It doesn't have 
to be a real address.