On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Jason Lewis wrote: > This brings up a question I always want to ask. Mailman will intercept > these mis-directed requests and act on them. Why don't people switch to > mailman or encourage their mailing list software authors to do the same? > > People in general are confused by mailing lists....why not make it wasy on > everyone?
(Just my personal opinion) Because the switch generally includes all "command like" words, and penalizing those who understand how to (a) follow instructions or (b) know how mailing lists work because a few people ignored the "don't throw this away" mail they got when subscribing, the links in the headers and the last ditch effort of putting a footer at the bottom of every single message with a link to the list management interface is generally seen as a bad thing. (Note: I haven't looked at the Mailman implementation to see if it's smarter than Majordumbo^H^H^H^H^Hdomo's was.) Pandering to those who are too lazy or incompetent to follow directions at the expense of actual list contributors has been generally seen as a bad thing. The intended audience of this list is supposed to be computer professionals who implement security controls on networks. If they can't either follow the spoonfed directions or figure out how to operate the user part of Mailman or Majordomo, they pretty much deserve to be Hotel California'd. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
