Mike Meyer wrote: > Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Is that really the desired behaviour? IMO the least you can do if you're >>searching for help is subscribing to the mailing list on which you're >>looking for help. Me and many others don't like to receive replies >>directly instead of via the mailing list; it's of no use, since we're >>subscribed to the mailing list anyway. > > > Rather than asking everyone else to modify their behavior for your > convenience, why don't you fix the problem at your end? Check to see > if the list will filter duplicates for you. Check to see if your > mailer will filter duplicates for you. Or grit and bear it. You'll > almost certainly get less unwanted mail from people who send you > duplicates in reply to your messages than they would get from > subscsribing to the list.
Don't overreact please -- I was just asking if what you described is really the desired behavior, along with some of the reasons why I'm not sure that it is. My experience of reading a number of mailing lists throughout the years seem to indicate that most people prefer that people looking for help subscribe to the mailing list. I might be wrong of course, that's why I stated it as a question. -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
