Michael Adams wrote:
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:16:35 +0100
Came this utterance formulated by Mike Scott to my mailbox:
Consider the following typical scenario:-
1. unsubscribed poster mails the list
2. all on the list colour that in brilliant scarlet so they know to cc
the OP because he's unsubscribed
3. a 'regular' responds
4. that message hits the list
5. someone else improves on that response. But the chances are the OP
won't see this, because the reply from (3) isn't coloured(*), so the
latest reply(5) isn't cc'd to anyone, including the unsubscribed OP.
6. Now you have a branch of the thread where the OP's address doesn't
even appear on the emails.....
Kind of defeats the object, it seems to me.
To be honest, half of the replies don't have much value to the OP
anyway. How many of the replies to this OP are of value? This list, and
moreso the users list, have a huge signal/noise ratio.
I think you mean noise:signal there :-} But anyway, the excess 'noise'
(including too much OT sniping at other users) is why I unsubscribed
from 'users' list a while back.
I'd have thought though, /especially/ for this list and similar,
non-subscribed users would be a bad idea. I see the argument, even if I
disagree with it, for keeping 'users' open.
It is all just noise anyway. The accepted way to change how things work
in open source projects is through the bug tracking system, with only
Said system, as has been discussed here recently, might well be
considered to be a bug in itself :-) I gave up a long time ago trying to
report bugs formally - just not worth the effort. (My opinion; YMMV)
announcements on the lists i.e. new project proposals. I think someone
may have even posted a change to the mailing list system as a bug. I
certainly haven't voted for it.
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Mike Scott Harlow Essex England.(mike -a-t- [deletethis]
scottsonline.org.uk)
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