On Apr 23, 2012, at 02:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >What are you doing hanging out in e-mail circles, then? ;-) It has to >be the most prominent example of a computing field where smtplicity >has led to a disaster, and it has never been easy to understand!
For some reason, I have Ren and Smtpy on the brain today. :) >I dunno. It seems to me that a lot of the lists where the users and >admins would not care about flexibility, machine-friendliness, and >continuity are also good candidates for moving to web forums in any >case. (Yeah, I know that Barry wants to kill web forums; but if so, >those users are going to have to coexist with mine!) Well, Paul Graham made me want to kill email, forums, archives, newsgroups, and IMAP. I don't know how to do it, but be on notice you old <wink> media, we're gunnin' for ya. >I don't find hashes (or most message IDs) to be human-friendly[1] at >all, and (if it's not going to be a tinyurl) I really only want the >line containing the URL to be less than 78 characters so I can be >pretty sure nothing is going to try to insert a linebreak. I guess >we're just going to have to agree to disagree on a lot of things. ;-) FWIW, a tinyurl would be very cool, but I don't know how to calculate those without state, and state probably requires communication between the archiver and Mailman. >Bottom line: I don't have a problem with you having your preferences, >and if you "win" I can work around it, but I do have multiple use >cases for List-Id != List-Post that I raise for consideration by the >group. > >[1] FVO "human" that includes a larger population than "geeks like >me"! My MUA is set to display Message-Id and References by default! Mine too. :) -Barry _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
