Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!

[Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh at usa dot net>]

At 01:31 PM 2/1/99 -0200, you wrote:
>Either the relay or an automatic reply saying ``the new e-mail address
>for reporting egcs bugs is egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com, please submit
>your report again, sorry for the inconvenience''.

MAKE THAT THING QUOTE BACK THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE!! I've seen a few systems
where outgoing mail is either not automatically saved or isn't even saved
at all, and people using such systems will experience "please submit your
report again" as meaning "Please struggle to remember all that you wrote
and then rewrite it slowly and painstakingly from scratch, and at the end,
remember to use the right address!". This is why mailer_daemon mail quotes
back the bounced message too.
Best would be to have it send the message described, quote the oiginal
below it, and have a Reply-To: of egcs-bugs@egcs.com. Then all the guy has
to do who sees it is
1. Note "hmm, the damned address changed." which is what you want to remind
them.
2. Hit "reply".
3. Edit away the notice and prefix symbols on the requoted message.
4. Send.
5. Use the new address now.

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