On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 10:33 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Felix Miata
[02-02-09 09:14]: This one will inevitably end, but others will inevitably start. It will remain inevitable as long as the general minority status quo is retained.
Both ways have their good and their bad. Why not create an individual setup option that segregates listserver outgoing according to preference, allowing both camps to get what they want?
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://marc.merlins.org/netrants/reply-to-useful.html
You have so little control over your own system that you are unable to accomplish this at your own box? If so, please ask for a local solution. Many of us can provide you a procmail recipe that will make your desired functionality a reality at your own machine while not imposing any change on the actual list actions or it's software.
Your complaints are but empty air when you have an equitable solution available and refuse to implement it, ie: Bitching just to be Bitching!
Gee, I would say to the list maintainers: not considering an alternative just because you control the thing. I often get the feeling that the sometimes seemingly disconnected discussions I read here are partly due to this awkward default. A message or two were accidentally sent to the originator and not the list. I can't see how anyone could argue that a list should set things up so it is susceptible to this. Or that it should rely on users of unknown levels of expertise to do what the list seems not to want to do for itself: ensure that as many responses as possible get to the list and do not go astray. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org