[systemd-devel] How to reply to the list

[Reindl Harald]

Am 01.10.20 um 09:31 schrieb 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.

yeah, because you are one of the guys and that's why you would have got
a vacation replky until yesterday while list messages are ignored