Roger Leigh wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:04:50AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
Anyway, the first rule of internet:
"be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others",
so people should accept wrong CC:s without crying, and people should follow
the CoC when sending mails.
The main problem for people like me who subscribe to a lot of lists
is that different groups have different requirements. Debian doesn't
like CCs, others require them, others are indifferent. It's not easy
to always do the correct thing--I don't want to remember all the
list-specific requirements, just send a reply.
Yes, this is the "liberal in what you accept from others" part, so
allowing errors without boring people with scaring message.
Unfortunately I don't think we can change the CoC, so we MUST
better handle errors. I also prefer adding cc:s, and I really
annoyed to some scary (and sometime wrong) messagges I get
when do wrong replies. I don't understand why people lose
time trying to point error to others, instead of just ignoring
errors (someone as a script to point errors, instead of a simple
user side discard of email).
A lot of time we lose discussion; e.g. in debian-legal:
a lot of DDs are not subscribed, so they see only half of
discussion, especially when there are new post after
some week of pause (e.g. after a private discussion
to upstream).
But I don't think it is feasible to change the CoC.
We should really be using usenet rather than mailing lists... It
solves all of the problems and is vastly superior. It's totally
geared to group discussion, handles crossposting to related groups,
and also allows mailing replies rather than public posting. Some
groups (e.g. CUPS) handle this by having a public news server with
an (optional) mail gateway for backward people who prefer mail.
personally I've more difficulty on handling usenet post on different
computer: synchronize read post at home, office and offline laptop.
ciao
cate
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