Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:52:06 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An observation Message-ID: <610591028.20050213235206@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <420FD773.5070400@makeworld.com> References: <420FCA6C.7070604@makeworld.com> <1987008862.20050213232914@wanadoo.fr> <420FD773.5070400@makeworld.com>
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Chris writes: > Ahh - so the mentality behind it is simply this; > You get tired of doing the right thing, so you do the wrong thing and > force everyone else that follows the rules, do all the cutting. No. The behavior this produces is the correct behavior for a mailing list. Normally, someone posts a first message to a mailing list, and then people who reply to that message send replies that are also routed to the list, so that all on the list can share the contents of the replies (that is, after all, why it's a list). If someone asks a question, for example, it makes little sense for all replies to the question to go privately to the person asking it, since many other people may have the same question. Logically all replies are sent to the list, so that everyone can see them. The fact that virtually everyone on these lists is doing exactly this demonstrates that it is indeed "correct" for these lists. However, many of them are doing it with "reply all" or by manually changing the destination address of their replies, which is labor-intensive and generates an extra, useless copy of the reply in the case of "reply all." I've simply automated a solution to this in my own e-mail configuration so that I don't have to alter every single message in order to route it correctly. I hope this clarifies things. > Yes - I am guilty as charged (this time) however, you continually do it. > There IS a difference. The biggest difference is that you spend most of your bandwidth attacking me, instead of discussing the nominal topics of the threads here. You'll notice that I do not reciprocate, nor do I complain. -- Anthony
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