Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2088 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:16 +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on 02/02/2009 03:13 PM Felix Miata wrote:
>
> > On 2009/02/02 14:43 (GMT+0100) Henne Vogelsang composed:
> >
> > > we keep discussing this over and over again with the same arguments.
> > > Nothing has changed. We decided and thats how it is.
> >
> > Both ways have their good and their bad.
>
> True.
>
> > Why not create an individual setup option that segregates listserver 
> > outgoing according to preference, allowing both camps to get what
> > they want?
>
> It is not possible with the software we use. People already posted
> different ways to achieve this locally why not use those?

I don't think a settable preference is in the right spirit either.

The quality of the list is less in the control of the list with the
current setup. Do all responses get posted back to the list? Not if one
uses the knee-jerk Reply button as opposed to the (in my case SUSE
list-only) ReplyToAll button. To get all messages defaulting to the list
no matter which button you press requires that all members do 'the right
thing' in their mail client. Whereas, I think the list should ensure
it's own quality first - no matter which button you press the list gets
a copy. Users who want to make their responses private can choose to set
THAT up themselves. The default is backwards.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!),
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  - Charles Babbage 1791-1871)
    English computer pioneer, philosopher

And remember:

It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. 
It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. 
Not impossible, but very unlikely.

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