[Squeakfoundation]Re: The Harvesting process and the BFAV

[Ken Causey]

I don't have time just at the moment to address all of this but I would
like to request that we NOT start another mailing list.  I want to
discourage this because once two mailing lists exist to which BFAV
traffic can be sent then the BFAV server must subscribe to both lists. 
We will very quickly find people sending traffic to both lists and then
it will become necessary to start checking the history of received
messages to be sure that a new message is not a repeat.  I see no reason
that posts that do not need to go to the mailing list can not be
perfectly well archived within Bert's bug/fix archives and within the
new BFAV server.  I haven't done the work to accept such messages
directly into the BFAV yet but it's just a matter of a few minutes to do
so.

While on this subject I would like to request that we adopt a more
intention revealing method of indicating that a message is intended to
be archived into the bug system than the List-Id: header.  Perhaps
something like

X-Squeak-Archive-BugFix: Yes

Additional data, if needed, could be appended to this as desired.

Ken
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