JB wrote:
On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:04, Joachim Schrod wrote:
>>>>> "JE" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> [vacation messages sent to lists]
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>> Any decent mailing list software will filter out these messages.
>> Get a better mailing list software if that happens.
JE> Or better yet: have the user configure their mail blurb in a way
JE> so that it does not autoreply to lists, which would be the overall
JE> best solution!
To rely on every person to configure their mail environment correctly
is not a solution, IMNSHO. One needs to tackle that on the one place
where one can address the problem; at the mailing list software.
So the app programmer has to make those who aren't lazy or stupid, pay by
making an app just *for* lazy and stupid people? Doesn't that just condone
and perpetuate laziness and stupidity?
Of course, I hope that laziness is perpetuated. Every good
programmer is lazy, that's why he writes programs - to let computers
do the work that I abhor. Why should I do something that a computer
can do as well?
And if you think that `the need to avoid thinking how to use an
application because it Just Works(tm)' is `perpetuating stupidity'
because the users are not forced to think deeply how to use their
MUA any more -- well, yes, then I'm for perpetuating stupidity as
well. I don't think that this kind of thinking is time well spent
and I would rather read a good book instead.
When I read these kind of arguments, I understand why Apple users
are so snobists when they look at Linux -- and they are right, damned!
Joachim
PS: As I wrote already, the solution is actually to use gmane, where
a sane interface as a newsgroup is available.
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