On 2009/02/02 16:31 (GMT+0100) Amedee Van Gasse composed from Belgium:
On Mon, February 2, 2009 15:04, Felix Miata wrote:
These are the pertinent questions. It's not so much the count as the representation. The casual subscribers, those who frequent friendlier lists and want it done the way most lists do it, would have been less likely to notice a pending vote announcement. OTOH, the militant regulars with their reply-to-list buttons would have been less likely to miss the opportunity to rubber stamp the general minority status quo.
What about the new militants that just came over from other lists (like Debian)?
What about them? Just as new militants join, so do ordinary people. Based on the ~40 lists I'm on, it's clear that the militants are in the global minority even if on particular lists they are vocal and may even constitute the vocal or even genuine majority.
Probably when hell freezes over.
Don't bring religion in technical discussions. Please.
You're confusing a common English language euphemism for the English word 'never' with religion. Maybe that doesn't have a Belgian counterpart, but this is an English language list.
Democracy is tyranny of the majority. People in USA holler about it a lot, yet USA is a republic, which is not the same thing.
Who's talking about the USA?
USA as most influential single country and oldest existing government in the world is the typical inference when the concept of democracy is mentioned, even though a democracy it isn't.
Anyway you seem to agree with me that democracy is a bad thing for Free Software.
Each case stands on its own merit in my book. Mailing lists are not free software. Those like this one are community forums, places where public discussion takes place, where non-public response is the well-understood exception rather than general rule. Maybe RFC 2833 should be or is authoritative, but what is it is not is law. I don't care who authored a mailing list post unless I wish to contact that person directly. For the few exceptions to the general rule list as intended destination, I'm perfectly capable of capturing the originator's email address and pasting it appropriately as replacement for the default. AFAIC, a mailing list is the sender, regardless of author, and the sender is who by default, by whatever means it can be effectuated, should get the reply. That means as long as most (by mail volume) popular mail agents omit support for the List-Post header field, most open community mailing lists should munge, in order that the greatest number of list replies actually reach their inferred destination. -- "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up." Ephesians 4:29 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org