NNTP client configuration

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 01:23:32 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d 
wrote:
> On 2/19/2018 10:40 PM, Tobias Müller wrote:
>  > Is he even using NNTP? Or maybe the mailing list Interface?
>
> He's using gmail's NNTP client. It's simply not possible for us to control
> it, any more than we can fix printer issues with Microsoft Word running
> on your machine. And you wouldn't want us to if we could :-)
>
> Now, since we allow any NNTP client to post to our NNTP forums, it stands
> to reason that it's polite to configure it properly. In this case, it
> would be to not spam out unintended emails, and to post as plain text,
> not double post everything as both text and html. While the double
> posting will work, it makes the NNTP database twice as big and half as
> fast, for no purpose whatsoever. These should be configurable with any
> NNTP client that is not an incompetent steaming pile of rotting cabbage.

Does gmail even have an NNTP client? I can't find anything about that when
doing a search for it. I had assumed that Manu was using the mailing list,
and as I explained, mailman is sending both the mailing list address and the
poster's e-mail address in the Reply-To header, in which case, the problem
is not that Manu has misconfigured his e-mail client but that mailman is
misconfigured, since replying to the addresses in Reply-To is the correct
thing for an e-mail client to do. You can blame Manu for not going to the
extra effort of manually removing your personal e-mail address from the To
header, but the client is doing what it's supposed to be doing given what
mailman sent it.

Now, the double-posting with both text and html is another matter entirely
and certainly something that's the fault of the e-mail client. I don't know
how configurable that is with gmail though. Webmail tends to want to assume
that you're going to do everything with html and isn't always very
configurable (which is one reason why I use a local e-mail client and not
webmail).

- Jonathan M Davis