Re-send in case it didn't get through (?) :-)
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From: Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com>
Reply-to: michael.me...@suse.com
To: Friedrich Strohmaier <damokles4-lis...@bits-fritz.de>
Cc: moderators@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-moderators] reply-to mangling
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:30:08 +0100
Hi Friedrich,
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 23:25 +0200, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Am 16.10.2011 09:51 schrieb Florian Effenberger:
> > Michael has been asking for quite a while already that we disable
> > the so-called reply-to mangling on our mailing lists.
>
> > Michael, maybe you can elaborate a bit on that and we see what the
> > moderators think, so we can maybe disable the function?
...
> I'm not Michael, nevertheless I'll answer :o)).
Incidentally - did you not get my reply ? perhaps it is held up by
moderation on the moderators list: quis custodiet ipsos custodes
etc. ;-)
> The two main arguments are:
> - pro: You loose valuable contributions which go lost through beeing
> sent private by simply answering to the recipient instead of the list.
Grief; I make the opposite argument that by doing it, you simply loose
contributions altogether. Sending a contribution privately once and
getting gently reminded to CC the list, is just a normal community
interaction I think :-)
> - con: There is a hight risk to have private content published because
> simple reply to the author is sent to the list without using the
> dedicated means for that.
So - that is (to me) not a primary 'con' - let me re-send my rational.
> I nevertheless support to do that change due to the above stated risk.
Hey - thanks :-) if my mail had got through, you'd see I recommended it
only for clueful user lists eg. security, but perhaps not 'discuss'
though inconsistency is a pain too.
HTH,
Michael.
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