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Re: Can someone fix this mailing list?
- From: John Dallaway <jld at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:28:32 +0000
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Can someone fix this mailing list?
- Organization: eCosCentric Limited
- References: <1103890330.8852.23.camel@hermes> <NEBBKHCFDGIGIJEHDJFCIEHCMOAA.pderocco@ix.netcom.com> <41D96367.9000707@ecoscentric.com> <41DA939F.8040701@ecoscentric.com>
Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
John Dallaway wrote:
[...]
List behaviour is indeed a matter of personal preference. Personally,
I am firmly against the setting of the Reply-To header by list
management software. The following page gives a concise set of
arguments against such behaviour:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
and equally, this alternate page sets a list of arguments why it is
considered useful:
http://i.am.haze.cx/mirrors/reply-to-useful.htm
The strongest argument IMHO for the change by far is to keep discussions
on the list and stop the continual "reply to the list" messages that we
see. As I said before, the current behaviour IMHO is counter-productive
to keeping discussions on the list, something that is continually
advocated by the maintainers.
The second strongest argument IMHO is duplicate emails. Not everyone
uses procmail or UNIX for their email.
Why dont we be democratic about this and put it to the vote?
For avoidance of doubt, the choice of mailing list configuration is
ultimately determined by the eCos maintainers, not by the result of
unofficial subscriber polling.
John Dallaway
eCos Maintainer
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