On Mon, 06 Feb 2012, Arno Töll wrote:
> please reconsider your choice. Jakub was asking on behalf of many of
> us and we all came up with the conclusion that filtering control
> messages would be beneficial to the mailing list. Who, if not the
> people actually reading this particular mailing list every day could
> judge better what seems useful and what not?

I actually read that particular mailing list every day, so I think I'm
in a fairly good place to comment.
 
> We are interested to make the sponsoring process more transparent
> but being interrupted by noisy out-of-context control messages in
> every other thread shown in the MUA overview is disturbing for those
> reading the lists and asking packaging related questions.

The answer to this is to properly set References: and In-Reply-To: in
the control messages, and the acks will be automatically in the
appropriate thread.


Don Armstrong

-- 
All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
 -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust

http://www.donarmstrong.com              http://rzlab.ucr.edu



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