On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:13:27 -0400 "Poison BL." <poiso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> fighting on the topic of 'proper use of mailing lists' when you're > standing in stark contrast to the configuration of the mailing list > you're using to do it, Which fight? It is a short notice as to why it is being done, as well as what can be done to make a change. Convincing individually isn't. > and in the process, telling everyone (many of which have been around > here helping other users for many, many, years) that they're wrong > for using the list they've been using in the manner they've been > using it... Words are being turned around here, I've never said someone is wrong; however, I provided filtering as an option to them to consider. > when I see your name appear the first time as long ago as > last Dec., is rather on the arrogant side at the least (I'm not > certain if you've been around -dev or another longer, as I don't > believe I'm subscribed on that one). There are more mailing lists and communication mediums; the reason I've not replied much in this one since last year, is because I've let this inbox grow to ~1000 unread mails or so which I'm progressing now. > If you're really hellbent on getting the configuration of the list > changed, feel free to take it up with the person who configures the > list, rather than approaching it by being condescending to the people > who consistently use it. That's for those that have a problem with it to do; as well a getting it confirmed that a certain way of responding is required, there's been nothing said about it when mails of mine went out to persons from the infrastructure team on the gentoo-dev ML and neither by other devs. Developers recommend each other to use a rule, and everyone uses it; it might be a side effect of procmail being available on our dev SSH, but in any case it works out well for every developer, see this link: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Procmail "The mailing list etiquette requires people to CC all the people involved in a particular thread in replies to the mailing list, in case any of them is not subscribed." -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
