Subject: Re: S
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: source-changes
Date: 04/19/2003 23:16:08
Christos Zoulas <christos@netbsd.org> wrote on Sun, 20 Apr 2003
at 01:58:00 +0000 in <20030420015800.4405EB004@cvs.netbsd.org>:

> Log Message:
> PR/5039: Greg A. Woods: vacation should look at Apparently-To: and
> Delivered-To: headers.

Umm.

There needs to be a manpage update...but I'm rather perplexed by this
change.

Assuming I am reading this correctly, this change allows vacation to
reply to messages that come with only an Apparently-To: or a

That's an incredibly bad idea! Delivered-To: (which isn't even a
standardized header!) often appears to reference the end-user on mail
to mailing lists. For instance, my mail from source-changes contains

Apparently-To: is very weird...it should never properly appear,
and I think the chances are the mail is not personal mail that
ought to be replied to in that case. I think the justification for
adding it is weak. On the other hand, I don't think it's
actively harmful the way Delivered-To: is.

Lastly, the comment style appears to be to comment each case statement
with the full expansion of the header; that should be consistent,
I think, and also the copyright date should get a bump.

Please revert this change.

--jhawk