Re: [LAU] Goodbye ReplyTo munging...

Am Dienstag, 14. August 2007 schrieb Matthias Schönborn:
> Anyway, I don't understand why some people make such a fuzz about it. Is it
> so hard to get used to the new settings, even if it's the standard setting
> among mailinglists?

Its not hard for pros like you and me. But its hard for beginners starting
with the whole linux and audio and email-lists -things. And they don't get
the replyToList-thing. Never[*]. On all the beginners-lists I am/was
subscribed to... Why should we make it hard for them (and us having to
reply/forward their answers to the list)?

I know that all the sane emailers will do it right (kmail can recognize when a
folder contains a mailinglist and the normal replyTo will then do the right
thing) but if we really want to be open to new folks exploring the free
software world in all its beauty we should really lower the stakes and
introduce them to proper-rfc-compliant-lists only when reaching higher levels
(like *-dev).

And my comment yesterday was the first I did about the whole discussion and
was triggered by one outlook-user who can really read multipart-emails
(outlooks fault) and two "private" answers that belonged to the list.

I don't really care if replyToMunging gets reactivated for this list or not.
If not I will probably stop getting "private" answers back on the list. The
advantage: The archives will be incomplete and may miss the solutions to the
problems. And beginners will wonder why only one guy answers to the second
mail, even more so if he doesn't come to a conclusion. And others will use
google and find their problem in our lists archive but not the solution (I
hate it when that happens to me!), because all the solving went off-list.
Yes, I could always try to get the discussions back on the list, but I am lazy
and I want to talk/discuss things, not deal with technical stuff that should
just work. Maybe that qualifies me foe getting a mac, I don't know, if they
weren't so pricey I would get one...

Have a nice week,

Arnold

[*] I know that all generalizations are false.

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