On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Roy T. Fielding <[email protected]> wrote: > I am completely uninterested in "fixing" the config just because some > person reflexively does a reply-all and then doesn't edit their own > destination addresses. There is nothing to fix here. A bounce is what > they are supposed to receive to keep the discussion on dev.
It is not only one person who is running up against this. Instead of unilaterally stating that there is nothing to fix, I asked first to get a consensus of folks on-list - I never asked Joe to activate any changes (as I didn't think we had a consensus yet) - he did so on his own volition. I believe that asking folks to change their sending address, or live with bounces, or remembering to remove addresses every time is busy work for no real purpose. It creates an additional barrier to commenting and should be avoided. We have software that should conform to what we desire - we shouldn't need to work around broken configs. BTW, if you maintain that the list config is immutable, then my suggestion would be to shut down cvs@ and route commits to d...@. This way we don't place unnecessary barriers to discussions around commits. If folks can't live with the commit traffic, they shouldn't be on dev@ in the first place... -- justin
