On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 23:31 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Even if they are subscribed (and looking in that folder) there may also > be a substantial delay to receiving mails through the mailing list, > which will introduce significantly more latency than if the active > participants are directly in Cc, and detract from the conversation.
For example, it took 22 minutes for this message to come back via the list -- this isn't just a hypothetical issue: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([2001:4830:2446:ff00:214:51ff:fe65:c65c]) by twosheds.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1OZApN-0003N9-MR; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:22 +0000 Received: from menubar.gnome.org ([209.132.180.169]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1OZApK-0005nv-Bt for [email protected]; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:20 +0000 Received: from menubar.gnome.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by menubar.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F41B7506B0; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from menubar.gnome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (menubar.gnome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ff2iToGoHiFp for <[email protected]>; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:31:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org [85.118.1.10]) by menubar.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD65B750616 for <[email protected]>; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:31:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from macbook.infradead.org ([2001:8b0:10b:1:216:eaff:fe05:bbb8]) by casper.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1OZAUR-0008Bu-IP; Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:31:43 +0000 For some conversations (and at some times of day) a half-hour delay in receiving a message doesn't matter as much -- but in many cases it *does* matter, and the conversation can have moved on a *lot* in that time. Dropping a participant from Cc is *bad*. If they *have* the message, they always have the option of deleting or ignoring it. If they *don't* have the message, they're screwed. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
