Re: list ettiquette (was Re: [RFC] Measuring skills of a Debian Developer)
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Irrelevant. Lars asked you politely to respond one way or the other.
> Your convenience is not his problem, especially when it's easily
> solved:
Well, I sent it only to the list. Of course I value Lars's kind
request.
> > including mutt.
>
> No, it isn't. Check out the subscribe parameter and list-reply function.
>
The perfect setup would be this:
* if the person is on the mailing list:
* send only to mailing list
* else send to mailing list, and cc to him (or vica versa)
I have no idea how this can be done unfortunately :(
I usually prefer graphical MUAs. To my frustration, there is still only
mozilla and netscape that works and they obviously miss a lot of features.
I seriously thought about hacking mozilla mail/news recently because I
didn't have a nice graphical MUA.
> > Many people are comfortable with cc'ing to debian-devel though...
>
> Many people are comfortable spitting chewing gum on the sidewalk and
> cutting in line. That doesn't make those behaviors any less rude.
Oops. I mean more than half of the mail I receive through debian-devel
comes twice. It's annoying, but I usually tolerate it because there's
no easy workaround.
The thing is mailing lists are such an old piece of software. I'd say
that the problems arise not because of people but because of the software...
I'd very much prefer private newgroups like on mozilla, with a mail
gateway rather than this setup. And by the way, there is everything that
makes this possible in Debian. I wonder why admins wouldn't give it
a shot? This might have been discussed before, and may even have been
rejected, but any news setup would be better than this.
Thanks,
--
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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