-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2010-10-29 at 11:42 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
fyi: some of the opensuse developer / project lists are being opened up to allow non-subscriber posts. The advantage is that if a topic comes up that needs the input of a non-subscriber, then they can just be added to the cc: line.
The trouble is that for those lists reply-all needs to become the norm for the to actually work correctly.
I'm a proponent of the change, but I doubt it will make its way to the end-user lists like this one anytime soon.
I see several problems. * It will open up the lists for spammers. * Some people will get two copies, one on list, one off list (which will cause complains, and confussion). * Of those people, if they are using gmail (which many do), they will only receive the direct, off-list reply (gmail removes the second email with the same ID). * When those gmail people reply, the reply might only go direct, not to the list. * And some other thing I forgot :-) An alternative, if the software allowed, would be to subscribe the external person automatically to that thread alone. Or for a limited time. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzLLJEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WzrwCdGwMCPCeps0Rn40RhkzJruUv6 U3gAn19OpeGCHjfciSw7IbZrY3ySu3mF =UYF+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----