Jeffrey Laramie
Any company which set rules for their *customers* on a whim will not last.
While they are the list administrators the list is provided for our benefit. This is our list.
And that's where you gravely err. This still is SUSE's list, like it or not. Should SUSE/Novell decide to discontinue this list, it would be gone in the wink of an eye.
We support the product, we contribute code, and we pay the salaries of the management and some of the coders with our purchases and subscriptions.
Stay on the floor, you pay part of it, not all.
We have every right to let them know when we are happy/unhappy with one of their policies.
Then this list is the wrong place. Nearly no one of the SUSE/Novell employees read this list.
It is my belief that if a problem is identified in a mailing list then it should be discussed.
You can discuss all you like, it'll probably never reach those that administrate this list.
As previously discussed, many popular mail clients don't have this feature.
Some MUA's (and those are quite popular in corporate environments)) don't support threading by using the In-Reply-To and References Header entries, should we therefore abandon it? Just because the programmers of a particular MUA seemingly don't have a clue as to what is needed for proper communication doesn't make that any kind of standard.
Even the administrator admits this configuration is the "dark side".
You didn't get the joke, do you? Do such statements need some kind of special tag so that you notice irony?
take a survey of members (read *customers*)
Not every member of this list is a customer, at least not a paying customer, as there are a number of people that use the FTP version.
Ah, but this is a business, and in business, Patrick, everything is negotiable.
This list isn't business! This list is a service for users of SUSE Linux. And as far as technical things like munging Reply-To are concerned there is no negotiation, it's that simple. And BTW, even in business there are things that aren't negotiable. Philipp