Charlie Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I will make no additional comment on this subject and allow all
> of you who believe using demime is the only solution for everyone to
> have the last word(s).
FWIW, I'm the original poster and none of the respondents came across
to me as believing that demime is the only solution.
As it turns out, having "old perl" is the reason I didn't install
demime previously. I just tried again -- and my perl's cpan
interactive install fails terribly on the packages needed. It looks
like demime falls in the category of "major hassle" for me right now
-- which means getting demime on my list violates John's goal of "to
deliver the mail with minimal hassle to both list users and to me."
I have a new replacement server in process, but it's a ways off from
being deployed (a wholesale restructure: new network, new MTA, new
MLM, everything). I may try to upgrade my existing perl, but this is
an oooold system (in internet terms: current server in service since
1995) and I'd probably end up having to upgrade gcc just to do
that. So, it'll depend on my having time, and just how long off the
new server is.
And Roger is correct that it is nice to have a mailing list where the
goal isn't to be as inclusive as possible. I don't run my list
democraticly or by consensus and this also has advantages and
conveniences. I'm not after the greatest number of subscribers. I
get to choose how much hand-holding is appropriate for my list.
Running inclusive, and especially consensus-based, mailing lists can be
a royal pain -- I'm glad other people do it. :-)
Technical restrictions can raise the quality of list discussion. They
can also exclude people who might otherwise be valuable
contributors. I think most of us recognize both sides of this issue
and acknowledge that the best balance differs from list to list.
If I hadn't known about demime, I would have been grateful to
hear of it. There may be other list managers on the list who are
learning of it for the first time and can use it.
--
Michelle Dick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
