On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Claude Jones wrote:
On what you said: 'evil' is one of those words that gets
bandied about on
these lists all the time - it strikes as strong and infantile; my first
thought on this is that if I were to set up a list in which the casual use
of that list by non-attentive users would result in their replies to posts
regularly going back to the original posters, instead of the list, I would
be seeing a lot of complaining - if I joined such a list, and started
getting personal replies to my list posts, I would be annoyed - it would be
annoying, a nuisance, a small pain in the neck, but evil???
They say it's evil because it can lead to accidentally sending personal stuff
to the mailing list.
IMHO you should be checking where you're sending to no matter what the default
is, it's your own darn fault if you screw up, but that's just me... ;-)
One nice way to make sure you're always replying to the ML is to use KNode
with the Gmane gateway. That reminds me that we should get this list onto
Gmane...
I hate Evolution and its evil promoters deserve anything they get ;-)
;-)
Kevin Kofler