Thanks for mail- and please see replies below. Also, your mail was doubly enlightening because apart from information it gave insights into a perspective totally different from my own.
Sandip wrote: > >> Basically I want to do some things: >> (0) Alert me to messages that include my name OR specific words of >> interest to me > >Not the work of a mailing list software. Rather an end user feature. > buddy, in today's world, mailing list software's job is to satisfy it's users-- if end-user is unsatisfied- then that use-case must be handled. These are your views-- not a general case-- because each user wants something different-- and it will solve problem-- of a Yahoo or GMail user marking a webmail as "SPAM" and possibly having thousands of Gmail users automatically have messages moved to spam. You yourself must be aware of this problem. But then, if I pay 10 paise for 10kb--- why shouldnt I mark messages as spam ? Why should not I have a choice of getting certain threads as digests and some threads as messages ? Remember; these days end users often use "semi-dumb" or "uncontrollably intelligent" clients-- like gmail mob; blackberry mail etc... and so, it makes sense to add more user-control and interface to the server. >technology but rather through social engineering. However an argument >can be made that some list owners might want such control over their >mailing lists. > I believe in today's world; it is about "what the user wants" NOT what the list owner wants. Regards, NS _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
