bug#335: marked as done (bug tracking system leads to duplicate replies appearing)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #897,
regarding bug tracking system leads to duplicate replies appearing
to be marked as done.

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> Thu, 29 May 2008 23:31:19 +0100
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> Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)
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> I've noticed that most of the replies appearing in the gnu.emacs.bug
> newsgroup seems to be duplicated.  This duplication is also occurring
> in the bug-gnu-emacs mailing list (although most of the web interfaces
> to the mailing list detect and hide the duplicates).
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> I believe this is due to messages being addressed to both
> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org and XYZ@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com where XYZ is
> the bug number.  When someone follows up, their message gets sent to
> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org twice, because everything sent to
> XYZ@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com will also be sent onward to
> bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
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> You can see for yourself in the mailing list archives.  As just one
> example, in the file at
> <URL:ftp://lists.gnu.org/bug-gnu-emacs/2008-05>, you can see two
> messages with the message ID
> <jwvwslkzpun.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>, which are both
> copies of a single message that Stefan Monnier posted in reply to a
> bug report I posted earlier.  Interestingly, by the time these two
> copies show up in the gnu.emacs.bug USENET newsgroup, they have the
> two different message IDs
> <mailman.12118.1211578329.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> and
> <mailman.12121.1211578334.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>.
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> By the way, it seems at first glance that none of these are the
> original message ID of Stefan's message, but instead these are fresh
> message IDs chosen by the bug tracking software and mailing list
> software.  At least the two message IDs that begin with “mailman” are
> definitely fresh.  These pieces of software should *not* be making up
> fresh message IDs.  Changing message IDs prevents duplicate filtering
> software from working, and also leads to fractured message threads
> where the reading software can not tell what is a reply to what.
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> I hope this bug report is helpful in tracking down and stopping this
> useless and confusing duplication of messages.
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> Joe
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> Recent changes ought to gradually make duplicate emails less common.
> (See bug#5384). This is still not perfect, so I'll open a new, shorter
> bug with the remaining issues.
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