[ECOS] Re: Can someone fix this mailing list?

[John Dallaway]

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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