[Outages-discussion] Outages lists configuration thoughts

[Joey Kelly]

On Saturday, March 9, 2024 10:59:02 AM CST Jay R. Ashworth via Outages-
discussion wrote:
> 
> I suppose we might -- if it's technically practical -- have an arrangement
> like:
> 
> A daemon reposts to outages-notify any message that comes into outages
> without "Re:" in its subject line?  Or, if the list processor doesn't break
> the headers, perhaps any message that doesn't contain an In-Reply-To
> header; do email clients still put those in?
> 
> That might get us the best of both worlds...

More too-cleverness...

If the mailing list software is hackable, we could maybe add an X-whatever 
header line with an ID, then have procmail/formail (my tools) redirect all 
replies with that header to -discussion. The usual problems with such a setup 
would will apply: users not subbed to -discussion would be a common problem, 
but even that can be automated... if the sender's email isn't in the second 
list, he could be notified via an emailed template stating that the message 
was accepted but a sub to the second list (or a link to the archives) is 
suggested to see all replies, etc. 

$.02

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