Hi, all, I'm sorry for jumping into this so late; just catching up on the email backlog.
على الإثنين 18 تـمـوز 2016 14:31، كتب Russ Allbery: > I believe threads stay in -private long past the point of requiring > privacy, not because people are particularly enamored of the audience or > posting restrictions there, but because discussion threads almost never > move. People always tried to move threads in Usenet as well, and I'd say > it works about 5% of the time. People almost always just keep replying in > whatever forum they saw the original in. > > This isn't a problem specific to Debian. I see this all the time at work > too. The only thing that can sort of help is if *everyone* in the > discussion is using something like Gmail that doesn't do proper threading > and instead shows every discussion as a linear discussion, and everyone > does reply-to-all to the last message of the discussion, at which point > you can mess with the recipients and sometimes it will stick. But with > any diversity of mail clients or proper threading, this goes away. > > And the threads start in -private due, usually, to legitimate privacy > issues. I've rarely seen threads *start* in -private for no apparent > reason. Rather, thread drift happens (which is pretty much a constant), > and the thread never moves (which is pretty much a constant). > > I'm extremely sympathetic to the problem you're trying to solve, but I > think it's a fairly fundamental UI issue in how email works, and I'm > dubious that creating another list will help much. I personally think that our BTS has enormous potential simply as a mailing list manager, and can even potentially solve this problem. Because threads ("bugs") can be easily reassigned to different mailing lists ("packages"), people who casually reply to a topic won't accidentally send it to the original mailing list. Many of the other BTS features would be useful to have in a mailing list as well, like clone/merge/archive, so I think all the fundamentals are there. regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name