On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Greg Woods woods@ucar.edu wrote:
Clearly, these are religious issues. Whether a list should set replies to go to the list or to the original poster, whether postings from non-members should be accepted, etc. are debated ad nauseum. You can't come in here and state your opinions in these areas as though they were facts; they are not. They are opinions in an ongoing religious war.
Fact: the most difficult a process is to follow, the less people would follow it Fact: a community benefits from all kinds of contribution, even from one-post people Fact: the current system doesn't welcome one-time posts Fact: the current system doesn't allow cross-posting Fact: the current system doesn't specify when the reply was meant for the receiver Fact: the current system doesn't allow to properly Cc people (non-subscribers) to a thread
I wan't aware there's a religious war about this, I just thought that whomever made the decision, didn't really had all the facts.
In the end, much time and effort on mailing lists is wasted arguing these points instead of talking about the topic of the mailing list. And those of us here on the list can do nothing about it anyway. Only the list manager's opinion really counts, so if you want to make a serious argument about it, that's where it should be directed.
And who is that? Do I need to subscribe to yet another mailing list to contact him?