On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn@gclements.plus.com> wrote:
Hamish wrote:
> Changing the default won't affect existing users.
Any pointers how to do global list adjustment of this setting?
> Personally, I'd be
> inclined to change existing users' settings as well; they
> can always
> change them back if they actually want it enabled. I
> suspect that most
> people have it enabled simply because they don't know about
> it.
This is likely.
I would be annoyed if someone changed this for me without asking.
This setting saves me time.
While for other people, it results in them never seeing a reply to
their question.
If it was turned off, you'd know about it the first time that you got
a duplicate reply. If it's left on, people won't notice that they're
losing emails unless they happen to look at the archives or if someone
replies to the reply.
I think that there is another setting in Mailman which avoid duplicate
receiving of messages (based on message ID matching).
Suggestion:
- we enable it for testing in this list (hey, it is a developers list)
- we see how Mailman and clients behave
- decide if to keep or not.
>> > Changing the default won't affect existing users.
Any pointers how to do global list adjustment of this setting?
No idea; the Mailman documentation is something of a mess. You could
try asking on their mailing list.
>> I would be annoyed if someone changed this for me without asking.
>> This setting saves me time.
>
> While for other people, it results in them never seeing a reply to
> their question.
>
> If it was turned off, you'd know about it the first time that you got
> a duplicate reply. If it's left on, people won't notice that they're
> losing emails unless they happen to look at the archives or if someone
> replies to the reply.
I think that there is another setting in Mailman which avoid duplicate
receiving of messages (based on message ID matching).
That just prevents the list receiving duplicates. I don't often see
duplicates appearing on these lists, so either it's enabled already,
or there's no real need for it.
While for other people, it results in them never seeing a reply to
their question.
currently I find it really hard to keep up with all the mailing list
traffic, there is only so much time each day I can spend reading emails
about grass without neglecting other things. so the extra few seconds
spent scanning a message to see if I've read it before or it is someone's
broken html reply which doesn't > quotes, comes out of the limited time
pool.. so I miss emails as it is if I have to leave yesterday's new ones
unread because there were 50 new ones overnight and I've got to get to
work. it doesn't help that yahoo's mail servers are more clogged than
osgeo's and so mail often randomly arrives up to 24 hours late.
well, at least I know I'm skipping those ones.
anyway, preferences are just that, and I'm glad for them.
in the past on other lists I've also had really irate emails from
apparently overwhelmed people who couldn't deal with the fact that
I'd left them in the cc: along with the mailing list's address.
shrug.