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Bug 258668

Summary: PMC Members should be allowed to post to project mailing lists
Product: Community Reporter: Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component: MailingListsAssignee: Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2008-12-12 10:55:22 EST 
I constantly find myself replying to a message on the technology-pmc list which also went to a project mailing list. However, everytime I reply my reply doesn't receive the project mailing list but only the pmc list.

It would be nice if PMC members can post to project mailing lists without subscribing them first. I wonder if the information can be read from the Foundation database and configured right into Mailman.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2008-12-16 09:14:11 EST 
This sounds like an interesting idea.  The only problem I can foresee is that, after posting a message on the list, the list members may actually reply to the PMC on the list, in which case you won't get the email (assuming that, as a PMC, you'd like to be able to *send* mail to all your projects' lists, but not receive all of it).

This scenario happens to us often as webmaster, where someone sends us mail and cc's their -dev list.  We simply reply to the person and ask them to forward the info to their list.  It may not be optimal, but it's less confusing for everyone.
Comment 2 Gunnar Wagenknecht CLA 2008-12-16 09:24:33 EST 
Hehe, so maybe we should configure Mailman to allow all Bugzilla users to post to any list. ;)

Usually, that's why there is a reply header. AFAIK the default mailing list configuration is to reply to the author and not the list. For Eclipse.org mailing lists it's different. I wonder if it would make things a bit easier if the reply would be the author. But then people would have to use reply/reply all buttons in their email clients correctly.

But I see your point. Feel free to close as won't fix so that we have that documented in Bugzilla. :)
Comment 3 Denis Roy CLA 2008-12-16 10:38:41 EST 
Janet had asked for something similar in the past (being able to reply-to all the -dev lists) and the other danger of this solution is that you become a prime target for From: address spoofing (ie, someone could use your address to successfully send spam to all the technology -dev lists).

Anyway, let's WONTFIX this for now, and reopen if we can think of a workable solution.