On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:50, Jim Sabatke wrote:
Dylan wrote:
I really wish you gripers would get a fscking life and understand that people need to be given the space to learn. This is a SUPPORT list - give people a hard time about something basically irrelevant like pedantic list protocol is only going to turn them away. Yes, let them know how they should behave, but don't take it to heart.
If we want to encourage users to come over from the other side then we MUST be prepared to accept the transition problems.
/me puts of flame suit
Dylan
It really is a PITA. I just want to reply the the list 99 times out of 100, so I hit "reply," delete the OP's name, type in the list name, and then hit send. When I have forgotten to do that I've annoyed the OP. I've also typed in the wrong list name and annoyed other lists with SUSE stuff.
It is inconvenient.
-- Jim Sabatke
If we're taking votes on this, I agree with Jim. The list is set up to satisfy that one-in-a-hundred need to send a copy of the e-mail to the sender in addition to the list. The rest of the time, 99 times out of a hundred, you just want to reply to the list but, due to the way the list is configured, it is very easy to forget to redo the To: and Cc: lines and end up sending duplicates. Which gets you in trouble with the oldsters on the list. Ah, heck. This has all been discussed before and it doesn't look like it's going to change so we might as well just learn to live with it. Don Henson