Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:32:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> Subject: Re: Stopping the bloody cross posting. Message-ID: <199807150432.AAA15295@xxx.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <19980715141154.01595@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jul 15, 98 02:11:55 pm"
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Sue Blake once stated: =If it really were relevant to that many lists, it should go out just =once, through freebsd-announce. If it's not appropriate for -announce, =then it's not appropriate for more than two lists. In fact, I have yet =to see a message that I regard as being appropriate for as many as two =lists. This is a practical observation, and does not eliminate the theoretical possibility of the need to use more then two lists at a time. Yes, the current shortcoming of available mailing list software is indeed worked around by the careful crafting of the mailing lists charters. =There's no way you could make this work for me. I subscribe to the =different lists under different user names, a few lists for each user. =How are you going to stop me getting pissed off by your lazy-thinking =crossposts? You can't. Well, if you say in advance "there's no way you could make this work for me" about _anything_ I would not even try. Please, consider changing your tone, those are not my "lazy-thinking crossposts"... =Regarding the cc to individuals, this is a practice which has become =the habit of thousands of subscribers over a period of years. If that =were changed, you would potentially be asking thousands of people to =reconfigure their systems and/or change their habits. The habits appeared as a result of lack of certain features in the mailing list software. But there really is not much to change. The CC-ed reply will go directly to the addressee. But the mailing list software will not send a copy to the same person. If that person wishes to file the message -- she/he is free to do so manually or automaticly (his/her mail processing scripts can gather plenty of info from the headers). Currently used software has an option of NOT e-mailing a message to its sender if the sender is subscribed to the list. Taking this further is only natural, IMHO... =But most important of all, this is the preferred familiar method of the =majority of those who contribute most to the FreeBSD project. That =alone is good enough to cancel all arguments against it for me. What about "the ability to innovate" ;-> ? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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