Re: Check the update from Microsoft.
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:18:14PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
I disagree. Replies should go where the person sending the reply
wants them to go, with consideration for any request which may be
made by the poster of the message being replied to. Say, for
I disagree to the first and agree with the latter. First, part of the
OSS movement (as I see it) is the sharing of knowledge. What good is a
mailing list if knowledge isn't shared with the community.
An offlist reply does not necessarily mean that knowledge isn't being
shared. I've already given two examples of this: Comments on a
poster's .sig and organizing a side project which is not directly
I talked about that later on in my previous response.
related to the list. Not all replies to list messages are relevant to
the list. I've even observed a handful of mildly embarrassing
incidents where personal replies were unintentionally sent to lists.
I agree. I've done that myself several times.
Then there is also the time-honored usenet practice of requesting
that all replies be directed to the original poster, who will then
post a summary of the replies at a later date.
I'd rather have a discussion go on about the different methods so I can
choose one or two (or more) methods to follow (in whatever order I
choose) and post follow ups (with problems I encoutner) as I go along.
If you're like me, you delete all discussions except the
ones you are truly interested in. This where the beautfy of mailing-list
archives come in. Someone's bound to remember that a similar problem
happened some time ago and can tell you so.
No argument there. I just trust people to be able to judge for
themselves which responses should be public and which should be
private. It appears that you do not.
Some people feel that they should be the only one's to know the solution
to their problem. They are entitled to that.
If they don't like the mailing list, there is always irc.debian.org #debian
instance, that you wanted to complain about my .sig - it may be a
reply to a list posting, but it's completely off-topic and absolutely
does not belong on the list.
Secondly, I know how to copy someone's email (even if it means writing
it down with pencil and paper) and composing an email directly to you.
Those who don't are either stupid or lazy (or perhaps both).
Don't forget that what I'm calling a Bad Idea here is the suggestion
that the list manager remove sender addresses from list messages. If
it does so, you can't copy someone's email address and send a direct
reply because it is no longer present to be copied.
Again, if you want a private reply, set your reply-to for your email
addy. I'm sure you can remove the sender without touching the reply-to.
Also, disallow non-subscribers from posting.
Again, I disagree. People who have problems with their debian
systems should be able to obtain help without subjecting themselves
to the hundreds of messages per day which are generated by this list.
There is the digested version of this mailing list, and I'm sure you
could elect to totally not receive mail at all. I'm sure this would be
an easy feature to implement, if I knew how to code I'd help with such a
project.
Digests reduce the number of messages received, but do not make it
any easier to find the one or two replies to your question that may
or may not exist within the hundreds of total posts to the list.
(Actually, I suspect they would make it harder, since threading
generally does not work with digests.)
I wouldn't know as I don't ever subscribe to digests.
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