[Freeciv-Dev] Re: replying to messages (was Re: Re: AI cleanup Version 3 (PR#1203))

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 01:56:32PM -0500, Jason Short wrote:
> Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:38:58PM CET, I got a letter, where 
> > Jason
> > Short <vze2zq63@xxxxxxxxxxx> told me, that...
> > 
> >>When you reply to a message sent to freeciv-dev that was also cc'd to
> >>bugs@freeciv, it gets sent to bugs@freeciv and ends up opening a new bug
> >>report.  This should be avoided :-).
> >>
> >>I'm not sure how best to avoid it, though.  For a while I was just sending
> >>the bug reports to bugs@freeciv, which would forward them on to the list and
> >>so there was only one message for the bug report.  This was superior, but
> >>then a couple of messages seemed to not get forwarded.
> >>
> >>For now, the best solution might be to have everyone just make sure they
> >>respond to the correct message, i.e. the one with the PR# attached to it.
> >>That way your followup will be attached to the correct bug report instead of
> >>starting a new one.
> >>
> > Funny, I wrote my mail, sent it and just got your one ;-). Well, I'm sorry 
> > for
> > this one, I forgot to check the cc list :/. However, it never occured to me
> > that some messages weren't forwarded.
> 
> 
> Ha ha, I got there first!
> 

> Seriously, I used to think all messages were forwarded.  But the new 
> natural city names one appeared to not be forwarded, leading to nobody 
> commenting on it at all.  With the volume of this list, it's hard to 
> tell, though.

The patch didn't make it to me through freeciv-dev. So there is a
problem somewhere.

        Raimar

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