[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Managing an ec2 instance and security group together with chef?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Peter Norton wrote:

> The list sets a default reply-to back to the list, but seems to accept
> his reply-to, and overrides its own on messages sent to the list.
> This is a list policy decision, and thus my question is whether this
> is deliberate.

That seems perfectly normal to me.  In all the years I've been involved in 
the Mailman project, and the fifteen-plus years that I've been doing very 
large scale mail system administration, that's been a typical setting for all 
the mailing list management systems that I've known -- at least, for those 
that have had the ability to set a reply-to header.  I concede that I'm not 
as familiar with Sympa as I am with other packages, but that certainly seems 
normal to me.

>            I've administered enough smtp servers that I do understand
> how sub-addresses work, and I'm not sure why you think I need to know
> that?

It was not clear from your initial post on the subject whether you had 
compared the reply-to header that he was putting on his own messages versus 
the reply-to header that the list would otherwise use by default.  I was 
simply trying to point out that the list was honoring the setting that he had 
chosen, and I am not aware of any particular assumptions that I had made 
regarding your knowledge or experience or lack thereof.

> Again, my question is whether it's intentional list policy for the
> reply-to of an individual on the list to override the default
> reply-to.  If it is, then I'll be on my guard, but often this sort of
> thing is a result of a knob in the list manager not being tweaked to
> disallow this.

Which gets to another long-standing rule, whereby one should not hijack one 
thread to discuss a different subject -- a rule that I am equally in 
violation of.  And this will be my final message on this hijacked portion of 
the original thread.

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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