Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-30 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Failure, actually. It shows that democratic decisions tend to produce technically suboptimal results. The vote in this case shows that majority of subscribers value their convenience more than cool stories of someone's past

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:37:50PM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: The beauty of democracy! :-) Failure, actually. It shows that democratic decisions tend to produce technically suboptimal results. That the whole list was spammed with voting traffic just adds insult to injury

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
Andrés said: The beauty of democracy! :-) Well, the decision is binding and must be respected. But the issue decided here is not the issue that was raised by Joseph Lorenzo Hall and defined by Matt Mackall. We can see this from the comments that accompany the public votes. One or two voters

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
PS - A fellow list administrator kindly points out that I'm wrong about the actual configuration variables. And in that connection, I also misrepresented what Karl was saying. (Sorry for the added noise and confusion.) The actual config variables are: (1) Should any existing Reply-To: header

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Yosem Companys
We voted on #2 because that was the issue Joseph Lorenzo Hall raised (see: http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/msg03767.html). He specifically asked for the following: Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by default been broached? Maybe I'm

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Karl Fogel
Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu writes: We voted on #2 because that was the issue Joseph Lorenzo Hall raised (see: http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/msg03767. html). He specifically asked for the following: Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Karl Fogel
M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net writes: Karl, in this message from you there was one Reply-To header, set to: Karl Fogel kfo...@red-bean.com, liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Thank you. Then we're at least avoiding the can't find my way back home problem, which is

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Hi all, I'm not comfortable enough with this list to reply-all very often (while it's a very informative list, the tenor doesn't match my own style, especially for a list with public archives), and it is a non-standard configuration -- in my experience -- to reply-to-list. That being said,

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-27 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
The beauty of democracy! :-) On Mar 27, 2013 10:20 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: Dear Liberationtech list subscribers, Thank you for your vote on the following question, Do you want replies to Liberationtech list messages directed to reply-to-all or reply-to-poster? Here

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-27 Thread Shava Nerad
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes alps6...@gmail.com wrote: The beauty of democracy! :-) ...for some definitions of beauty but all definitions of democracy. That's my love with all the warts and blemishes! :) yrs, -- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com -- Too