In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And I'm basically wondering how other people have coped
> with radical changes to -their- list cultures?
Well, I am, or rather, have been mostly a Usenet person, so I know
little about the changes in list culture over time.
I do notice that there are now a quite a few lists around that have two
features enabled I consider very stupid, and annoyingly users are asking
for other lists to be converted to this, namely
- forcing a Reply-To header with the list address,
- forcing a [LIST] prefix into the Subject header,
both of which are intended to help people with poor list handling but
making it the same more difficult for people with sensible list
handling (separate folders, gateway to local newsgroups).
Regarding your centralist/federal issue: I run two local mail2news
gateways, one here at home for my personal use, one at university. As a
result I go through the steps of subscribing many mailinglists. There
are too many different list server packages out there, with too many
different interfaces and additional idiosyncracies (e.g. in the name of
spam-proofing) at each individual installation.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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