[systemd-devel] How to reply to the list

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 30.09.20 11:08, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:

> Am 30.09.20 um 09:35 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
> >>>> Dave Howorth <systemd at howorth.org.uk> schrieb am 28.09.2020 um 16:34 in
> > Nachricht <20200928153422.6bf6ee16 at acer-suse.lan>:
> >> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:10:38 +0200
> >> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> >>> can you stop "reply‑all" and breaking threads when respond to lists?
> >>
> >> I can't answer for the reply‑all, that would annoy me as well.
> >> But the thread isn't broken, my MUA is showing it nicely.
> >
> > Also: Some MUAs only have "reply" and "Reply to all"; the first one would only
> > reply to the sender, and the last one would reply to list and sender.
>
> and?
>
> you are one of the "reply-all" guys and so i need "reply-all" too - now
> look at my message - do you see anything else then
> "systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>
> it's no rocket science using a 08/15 brain and remove useless RCPT's
> even before start writing the response

Reindl, stop this. No need to write stuff about "08/15 brains".

emails are a tool, and a tool that is used a certain way by
people. Insisting that the tool shouldn't be used that way is
pointless. We want to discuss systemd on this mailing list and not
what the truest bestest way to send mails to mailing lists is, it's
irrelevant, we better adjust the mailing list so that it works for
people rather than insist that they are doing it wrong.

Mailing lists have a high threshold of entry anyway, and scare many
people away who aren't that used how the 1990's Internet wanted things
to work. There's really no point in making the level of expertise you
need to participate even higher by requiring them to use a UNIX nerd
quality MUA.

Hence, this is a pointless discussion. What people actually do
matters, and what the book says doesn't.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin