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Re: Re: Can someone fix this mailing list?
- From: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:01:19 +0000
- Subject: Re: [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>
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?
Rather than spam this list, or spend time setting up a web vote portal,
I spent all of 3 minutes setting up a crude procmail filter to count the
number of unique email addresses (on the assumption that each voter will
use only one email address ;-) sent to these voting emails addresses.
The message body and subject will just be ignored, so send email to
vote.yes@ecoscentric.com
if you want the reply-to field to be changed and
vote.no@ecoscentric.com
if you dont want a change. If you don't care, you can do nothing or
even email
vote.dontcare@ecoscentric.com
Hopefully the result will put an end to this age-old debate :-)
-- Alex
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